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Shvoong Home>Arts & Humanities>Philosophy>After all, which means a crisis of paradigms? Summary

After all, which means a crisis of paradigms?

Academic Paper Summary   by:lufalcao     Original Author: Luzia Aparecida Falcão Costa
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This abstract was translated from Afinal, o que significa uma crise de Paradigmas?
 
Every time we have noted in the skin effect and the consequences it has for each of us and for our lives, the serious crisis that devastated the society today, as it has reached the man what he must most precious, their own human essence. This is actually a crisis of paradigms (models) and therefore it is important to analyze and reflect about the same, and the consequences it brings to all areas of society and for the new millennium the lives of those who are part. A crisis of paradigms, always occurs through a conceptual change, or a new vision of the world caused by the dissatisfaction related to the previously prevailing models, without explanation. It is believed that more radical changes, generally, are of a scientific, due to the exhaustion of the explanations offered by traditional models and theories, which makes them look for new alternatives to replace the already worn out, new theories more appropriate to current conditions. The so called modernity, in fact, is a new era to be characterized as what effect human society and installed in a break with the tradition that leads to the search, the subject''s thinking, a new departure for the construction and alternative justification of knowledge, the subjectivity is the dominant term of the subject / object. Certainly, however, where the topic is crisis of paradigms, one can not restrict it only to the scientific field, without making a reflection on everything that modern society has been facing lately. What is happening is actually a crisis of the concept of paradigm, depending on the absence of a given reality and understood as a closed system, and this kind of crisis due not only the inadequacy of the paradigm a reality, but it is incompatible with our ethical choices. However, to actually install it and be effective, involves the acceptance by the individual and the consensual validation that is done around these choices, by beliefs and practices shared by a group. And this is precisely the point that matters to clarify and examine, in view of the current context and notes that it is experience, both as regards the structuring of human life, the way purchased to view and define the meaning of life. What is certain is that as the crisis of paradigms has been initiated from the last decades of the twentieth century, when the world and all humanity was affected by major and profound changes in the scientific field, with the advancement of telecommunications and new technologies. Such scientific advances, however, were assimilated by a particular type of ideology, which came on these new instruments and started to use them with the single purpose: to manipulate people and their lives, leading them to the consumption and materialism, making it is primarily responsible for the crisis that has moral and ethical imperative in the human world.
The evil effects brought by such a crisis, so direct, refer to the ontological sense, because they are directed to all people that exist today and develop this tumultuous world, transformed into a mere by-product of it. These events were extremely destructured to man as regards the real meaning of truth, which was replaced by the seduction and desire. This reversal brought to man a strong sense of abandonment, of empty interior, then it is no longer able to distinguish truth from falsehood or illusion. When you become conscious of a certain emptiness inside, the individual will have many fears, so far, were missing, which are caused by the uncertainty contained in everything he is presented as new, which in any way relates to something pre-established or because it contains a basement. Are those that destroy the individual fears their expectations and future prospects, as it is not supported and not security as regards the direction of his life. There you certain benchmarks, which until then existed, which have always been offered to previous generations for their formation and structure, regarded and respected as the guiding human behavior and directed both to the idea of me as the ideal of life. Understand, therefore, the serious consequences it brings for the structuring of human beings live and develop in a society devoid of paradigms, starting by adjusting the many changes on the conceptual design of oneself and the world that surrounds him, the everything that comes to be and being in the world because, normally, this awareness has to come down so camouflaged, unattended in a rational and justifiable sense to human existence. It affects the vision of the world, preventing the identification of the place that the human being there is, besides producing profound impact on conceptions of politics, ethics and aesthetics and nature. It is believed that so you can start a process of reversal of such construction, the point of departure must be through awareness, so that the human being is recognized as the main target of the crisis of paradigms (models) that took the company''s current . Otherwise, everyone will continue acting in colluding with everything that is happening, according to the comfortable waiting to happen and lets wait and see in what is going.
Published: March 28, 2009   
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