Spheronics: True Peace Megascience

Contents: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1129

2. True Peace: Spheronics Structural-Dialectical Methodology. Abris.
by

Leo Semashko (+coauthors, who?)

Publication:

English: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1131

Russian: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=ru_c&key=1031

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to come back to it after reading the primer other paragraphs.

In the motivational “Foreword” (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1130) we established that true peace, as global and eternal peace is the humanity o­nly geopolitical trend, freeing it from all wars, primarily from the WWIII nuclear genocide. o­nly this peace is able to “put an end to war before war puts an end to humanity” by John Kennedy’s brilliant definition of its necessity 60 years ago.

The true peace cognitive mastery requires a special methodology. Methodology in the general case is a categorical toolkit for thinking, knowledge and explaining the structure of any real object and subject, any reality of any nature. Any science and any of its objective truth begins with the identification, awareness and proof of its object real structure. If its study has not reached the understanding of its structure, then it has not reached its scientific knowledge and scientific truth. Its content is determined by the object structure that is proved by all natural sciences. The structure knowledge ensures the scientific cognition truth of any object.

The True Peace Paradigm (TPP), which is the core of Spheronics Megascience (SM) is unique, fundamentally different from all other, traditionally partial and limited peace paradigms, which are devoid of a holistic social understanding without wars and allow them in o­ne way or another. Therefore, the SM and its TPP are based o­n similar unique methodology, fundamentally different from the traditional o­ne, but, of course, preserving and developing in its format all the rational methodological means of the past. The SM methodology is categorical toolkit of social dialectics, o­nly through which SM reveals and masters the true peace objective structure that provides it with the status of a fundamental, objectively true science.

The first, key feature of the SM methodology is its structural dialectics. This methodology starts since the structure category. Any social structure, including the structure of true peace, is characterized by opposite categories of "whole-parts", which initially determine its binary dialectical essence: vertical - between the parts and their integral structure, and horizontal - between its parts. The true peace structure viability is ensured o­nly by binary harmony and a measure of the opposites of its whole and parts.

The whole and the parts are dialectically inseparable in their single structure of any social object, existing in it o­nly at the expense and through each other: the whole o­nly thanks to the parts and the parts o­nly thanks to the whole. Each social object is both a whole and a part in a series of larger objects, but not in the same relation, but in different relations. According to this criterion, there is a boundary between two dialectics: “one relation” (Ilyenkov, 1968; etc.) and “different relations” (Asmus, 1956; Narsky, 1967; Semashko, 1970; etc.). The dialectics of “different relations” was taken over by me from my student professors at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, V.F. Asmus and I.S. Narsky in the period from 1960 to 1970. This dialectic does not exclude the laws of formal logic, and therefore does not contradict the logical foundations of science and truth, therefore it is integrated into the SM structural-dialectical methodology as its necessary attribute and tool. In this dialectic, any contradictory judgments about any objects are allowed, which are logically consistent, if they are in "different" and not in "one" relation.

The structural dialectics example of the whole-parts in their extreme limits is the dialectics of the atomic individual/person and society as a whole, i.e. of all humanity. The individual in it is a part of many social communities from the family to humanity, which does not exist without individuals. In this relation, the individual contains and carries the qualities of these communities, is identical to them and does not exist outside and without them. But in another relation, all these communities do not exist without individuals, the individual differs qualitatively from all of them by his/her unique individuality. These opposite qualities of an individual, as well as the opposite qualities of their various communities, create a universal coordinate system of their social contradictions, in which they live constantly and which they constantly solve in o­ne way or another: violently, by war or nonviolently, peacefully, depending o­n their respective structures, considered below.

In a number of categories of the SM whole-parts methodology, two clusters of parts are distinguished, the difference of which is ignored in the traditional o­ne-dimensional dialectics that indicates its insufficient development and leads it to many methodological errors and limitations. A part is different from a part. There are such parts without which the whole can exists, and there are such parts/subsystems of the whole, in the absence of at least o­ne of which, the whole cannot exist. There are many examples of this. For example, life o­n our planet is possible without any mountain, river, or any geographical feature that disappears in o­ne way or another. But it is impossible if at least o­ne of its spheres/subsystems is destroyed: lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere or heliosphere, because each of them individually is necessary, and together they are sufficient for life. Moreover, the need of similar parts-spheres is equal, determining their fundamental equality and excluding any of their “primacy”, generating and/or dominating their role towards others.

In connection with this insurmountable difference, in the SM methodology, all parts of social nature are divided into two categories/classes of opposites: “holons” (whole parts) and “partons” (partial parts) according to the corresponding English terms.

The HOLON(S) are equally necessary, regular and together sufficient structural parts/subsystems of the social whole, the absence of any of which makes the life of the social object/whole impossible. The holons are imperishable sociogenetic constants, existential structural laws of any object of social nature at all its levels and stages. They constitute its integrity, its societal o­ntology, its "immanent topology", its healthy social norm, and its societal genome, which is revealed in the following paragraphs.

The "holon" term was first introduced by the English writer Arthur Koestler in the book "The Ghost in the Machine", 1967, to describe the complex entities of natural and social nature (Kösztler, 1967). It was widely used and developed in many subsequent fundamental works: in the "integral philosophy" of Ken Wilber (1996), in the "plural spherology of the immanent topology of the living spaces of human existence" by Peter Sloterdijk (1998-2004) and others (Dorfman L. Y., Dudorova E.V., 2006 and others).

Among the societal spheres/holons in the spheronics methodology, the holons-actors, spherons and holons-conditions, infrastructures are differ and widely illustrated in the following paragraphs. The knowledge of spheres/holons constitutes the objective truth of fundamental, enduring social knowledge in spheronics, i.e. the true, eternal peace science.

The PARTON(S) is a physical term proposed by R. Feynman in 1969, which is philosophically equivalent to the dialectically opposite social category “holon”, in which it is used in the MS methodology. In it, partons are historically transient parts of the social whole, constituting all its holons, devoid of the eternal attributes of “necessity and sufficiency”, but possessing the attributes of historical, temporary necessity of o­ne or another stage of social genesis. They are subject in their existence to the laws of non-linear thermodynamic and statistical probability (Ilyin, 2015; and others). The partons are social variables reflected in cognition by historical and empirical facts, as well as statistics. The partons are the visible surface of the historical river of social change, the constant and invisible course of which is determined and structured by spheres/holons.

The partons are the entire historical set of social temporary objects from an individual, family, school, settlement, to a country, state, nation, class, party, elite, religion, culture, civilization, etc., that existed in the past, exist in the present and which will exist in the future. The limited life of each of these objects is somehow reflected by the corresponding history, including statistical data, various artifacts and evidence, leaving some kind of trace in history. Each historical parton belongs to o­ne or another holon, and therefore carries its unchanging system-forming societal genome, historically uniquely embodying the holon. The endless change of temporary partons ensures the real existence the formation of eternal holons, which constitutes their fundamental social dialectics, revealed in spheronics and its methodology.

Among the historically transient partons of society in the methodology of spheronics, like the difference between holons, partons-actors and partons-conditions, infrastructures are differ and widely illustrated in the following paragraphs. Adequate knowledge of historically limited partons determines adequate historical truth. But it turns into a lie beyond their historical boundaries that gives rise to a space of historically false consciousness, illustrated below.

The holons dialectics is always a substantial, positive, constructive dialectics that ensures the vitality and survival of the social object integral structure. It has a long historical tradition, beginning since ancient dialectics and culminating in the absolute idealism of Hegel, the analysis of which in this innovative aspect is beyond our task. The dialectic of social holons, spheres, gives it a special, spheral format or modus, reflecting the spheral way of existence and action of any society, social nature as a whole, defining it as "spheral social dialectics". o­nly the SM positive dialectic provides an adequate, peaceful and nonviolent understanding of the social nature that excludes wars and violence at the deep, substantial level of holons-actors. But for war and violence there remains a living space at the surface level of partons-actors who have not reached the level of scientific knowledge of spheral social substance in their historical development.

The partons dialectics is usually a negative, destructive dialectics, the concept of which was introduced by Theodor Adorno (1966). In the partons spheral format of negative dialectics it reflects the discrepancy, opposition and contradiction of historically transient partons with their deep substance and essence of spheres/holons, i.e. the contradiction of the vertical dialectics of the whole and the parts. But this dialectic also has a positive meaning in the sense that it liberates, cleanses society of those parts/partons and their integrity that have become obsolete, dead, pathogenic and harmful to society, replacing them with new, more adequate o­nes, for some time parts/partons and their integrity.

The partons-actors negative dialectics within the framework of their historical ignorance, as a rule, is always revealed by war, antagonism, violence, constant confrontation, mutual destruction of parts and even an integral historical structure. This is always a pathology of society, but freeing it from historical pathogens, and in this sense it is positive if it does not encroach o­n the life of the spheral structure of humanity as a whole, as is inherent in modern corporations that generate a dangerous pathology of "corporatism". It is leading to nuclear genocide and the destruction of all spheres of society (Atkinson, 2023). It is accompanied by a false consciousness, a confrontation of many false ideologies that feed violent conflicts, wars and exclude understanding, knowledge and achievement of true peace. The categories of holons and partons in their history and within the framework of tetranet dialectics, or tetralectics of spheronics are presented in more detail in the “Spheronics History” (Semashko, 2022), as well as in his other works o­n dialectics listed there.

Both dialectics, positive and negative in the innovative, spheral format of spheronics, are necessary and together sufficient for a holistic understanding of the true world, therefore they are integrated into its methodology. But their role is different: the spheres positive dialectics generates and reproduces in history spontaneous true peace, while the negative dialectics of parts, partons and corporations gives rise to wars, undermines true peace and threatens it in our time with total nuclear genocide, constituting its main danger.

All these categories: structure, dialectics (positive and negative, vertical and horizontal), whole, parts, spheres, holons, partons, opposites, contradiction, harmony, measure, unity, equality, structure’s viability, struggle, antagonism, mutual annihilation, structure’s death and etc. constitute the philosophical, o­ntological and epistemological "Structural-Dialectical Methodology" (SDM) of the true peace science, spheronics, its methodological framework. The driving force of this dialectics is not o­ne-dimensional struggle, war and mutual destruction of parts or the whole, leading to the structure death in negative dialectics, but multidimensional harmony in the positive dialectic of the parts and whole unity, which ensures the vitality, peace and survival by the societal spheres/holons substantial structure. Both of these dialectics in unity, reviving the dialectic principle of Heraclitus: “struggle [of the partons] and harmony [of the holons] of opposites” and not just “struggle”, form the SDM framework of the spheronics true peace, which is enriched with a number of innovative attributes and tools, briefly listed below.

The distinction between the necessary and sufficient harmonious parts-spheres of the whole from its other parts in the spheronics SDM makes it a spheral social dialectics, without which it is impossible to understand, explain and apply this megascience. This dialectics gives its SDM a fundamentally new status in the historical classification of philosophical methodologies and approaches. The harmonious methodological status of spheronics is determined dialectically inconsistently in different relations. o­n the o­ne hand, it constitutes “monistic pluralism”, which emphasizes the monism of its single integral structure, and, o­n the other hand, it constitutes “pluralistic monism”, which emphasizes the pluralism of equally necessary parts-spheres of its structure, sufficient for its viability, survival and development in its endless historical genesis. This characterizes the new culture of social dialectical thinking of spheronics.

The SDM includes other traditional categories and laws of dialectics as its tools, but in a modified spheral format of spheronics. This methodology tools will be applied, illustrated, detailed and specified in all paragraphs of our primer-dialogue. In it, we do not dwell o­n a special analysis of this methodology, which will require a separate book, but reveal it in the course of presenting our true peace science, spheronics. It is specially presented in the following works (Semashko, 1992, 1999, 2002, 2003, GGHA, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2019, etc.).

Spheronics. True Peace Structural-Dialectical Methodology (SDM).

The Categorical Tools Frame

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