Comparative analysis of the synergistic approach methodological basis (article one)

The article provides a philosophical and methodological analysis of the main provisions, principles and categories of synergetic. Taking into account the generalizing and synthesizing ‘claims’ of this science, including the search for general laws of progressive self-organization of matter, it seems necessary to answer the following questions: a. Are there enough philosophical means to express and systematize one’s own knowledge? b. Does the synergistic approach enrich traditional categories of philosophy with new categorical meanings? c. How ‘human-sized’ are the systems considered by synergetics? All these questions are questions about the adequacy of applying the methodology of synergetics, as new ‘conceptual glasses’ (by V. Stepin), to a task that is universal in philosophy. This paper analyzes the process of interaction of philosophical and particular scientific knowledge, more specifically, the philosophical and general scientific level of science development, since the development of particular sciences makes it necessary to concretize and detail the general provisions, the basic laws and categories of philosophy, to identify their new facets in the light of modern experience...