Environmental Medicine And Philosophy Of Environmental Pprotection

SR No.: 269311
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julian Aleksandrowicz
Publisher: Julian Aleksandrowicz
Total Pages: 8
Language: English
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“The very essence of the ecology of civilizational disease is the effort to find an answer to the question, why there exist in various geographical environments, at different times, fluctuations in the sick rate, regarding certain diseases."
Environmental Medicine and The Philosophy of Environmental
Protection
JULIAN ALEKSANDROWICZ
We live in an epoch in which the natural sciences have moved away from philosophy. And after all, since times immemorial "the fondness for wisdom", and thus the term defining any kind of science, any science of the world meant philosophy.
This most general theory of reality constituted in a way the groundwork for 19th-century scholars, versed in various specialized fields, into which they composed, in a harmonious way, the findings of their research and the opinions which stemmed from this.
Out of all their achievements, the great creators of science, beginning with Aristotle, through Copernicus to Einstein, Schrodinger and others, formulated general philosophical conceptions, testifying to the correctness of their own vision of the world.
'Then came the 20th century and with it emerged more and more narrowed downt scientific specialities. This made it possible to obtain quickly verifiable results of theoretical reasoning, serving as an assurance for the scientists that they were following the correct road. No wonder, therefore, that many scholars consider today the search for philosophical generalizations, implicated by the various disciplines, as something outright unscientific. That is why the precipice is deepening more and more between the exact sciences, with physics, mathematics and contemporary biology at the head, and the humanities.
Before I embark on reasonings connected with the title of the present paper we should be fully aware of the fact that to each one of us the world is a complex of real objects with a variety of properties. A system in which we people live, move around and act. We are one of the things of the "world", in the form of bodies, of precise biochemical machines, of psychosomatic structure. But this world is nevertheless, being reflected