Nazarenko A.V. Network approach to conflict research: knowledge, doing, loneliness. In: Socio-political conflicts: theoretical concepts and settlement practices: [monograph] ...

Abstract

The modern world is characterized by an avalanche-like increase in conflict. It is paradoxical that this is happening against the background of natural, cultural, social and religious "desystematization" of human perception of the surrounding reality and understanding of its some kind of hitherto incomprehensible universal "globality". Of course, against this background, more and more orthodox adherents of the "specialized" "systemicity" of the universe remain, which naturally creates conflict-provoking points of tension not only between their opponents - the conventional "universalists" and "globalists", but also between them due to the discrepancy between the "specialization" of the "system" they have chosen. Based on this, one can see a number of reasons for the growth of tension and the intensification of conflict in the modern world. The first, clearly visible reason is the "selfhood" of the human "I" as a way of being in a world "not isolated" from others as either a "rational animal", or a "theological being", or an "anthropological being", or a "psychological being". The second, clearly visible reason is the different interpretation of the phenomenon of the "existing world" as the world of nature, which implies the identification and "conceptual-categorical fixation" of the being of the "human world" within it. And finally, the third visible reason is its potential "peacefulness" as the "structural whole" of separate, but at the same time interconnected human worlds that forms it. Everything that concerns the phenomenon of tension and conflict, one way or another comes down to the study of the motives underlying the actions and deeds of an individual "present" in the world. The network view of the "beingness" of the world and all the processes occurring in it allows us to read tension and conflict in the context of a person, a human being and humanity as a whole. The use of the network view to analyze tension and conflict is clearly accompanied by a global trend of gradual liberation of human actions from dogmatic biological, theological or ideological justifications. We are talking about the boundaries of the symbolic human "I", determined on the one hand by knowledge, and on the other hand by human desires. The true cause of any tension and any conflict becomes the “closed subjectivity” of man, burdened with knowledge and desires, since his “I” as a symbolic and as a means of communication, both tactically and strategically, is no longer capable of stopping any encroachments of his “imaginary” and “real”, be it knowledge or desires, pursuing and subjugating his mind.

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