Nikolay Fyodorov’s Attempt to Link Aristotelian and Kantian Natural Teleology to the Project of Nature Regulation
... these stages is based on the conviction that at a certain period of time finalism is supplanted by the notion of the goal engendered by the developing whole. I submit that we can talk about nonclassical teleology in yet another sense.The interest of Aristotle and Kant in the foundations that warrant the existence of purpose of the products of nature is replaced by the attention to the fact that what exists in nature is not sufficiently purposive. The change of perspective is accompanied by a revision ...
Reading signs and being in the world: a dual perspective on semiotics
... distinctive participant in sign processes that combines subjectivity with a universal character. Against this background, the understanding of the two types of semiosis can be seen to evolve historically: from philosophical reflection on individual signs (Aristotle, Peirce) to linguistic and semiotic investigations of holistic systems (Barthes, Lotman). The capacity for such an expansion of perspective, together with an awareness of the heterogeneity of human sign activity, ultimately underpinned the ...
