Three Dimensions of Living Forms - brief look into parallels between Adolf Portmann and C.G. Jung

• Autorzy: Ivana Ryška Vajdová
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This article shows correlation between two prominent thinkers of the 20th century, a biologist Adolf Portmann and a psychiatrist C.G. Jung. It shows a traditional problem of the biology and science in general, i.e. understanding its subject through a prism of function, regardless its meaning. Adolf Portmann, Swiss biologist and anthropologist, refers to many examples from the animal kingdom proving that function as an interpretative principle is not fully applicable. Portmann, similarly to Jung, distinguishes three primary levels of his subject, each of them has their own aims and values. At the same time, he emphasises that each of these levels can be comprehended only when regarded as a unity.(original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Natural environment; Biology; Science

PL

Środowisko przyrodnicze; Biologia; Nauka

• Czasopismo: Humanum. Międzynarodowe Studia Społeczno-Humanistyczne
• Rocznik: 2015
• Numer: nr 18 (3)
• Strony: 119--126

Twórcy

autor

Ivana Ryška Vajdová

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