PREFACE TO THE READERS

The contemporary social crisis attracts much attention of philosophers and scientists from different fields of science. It is apparent that, if a researcher wants to put to order the chaos that has occurred as a result of the civilization shift on the planetary level, it is inefficient and inadequate to analyze separate disconnected fragments of social reality.

Besides, it is necessary to note that the theoretical landscape of the research field in which the social crisis is being scrutinized after “the breakdown of totalitarianism” and collapse of “ideologems” of “radical westerners” is littered with shells of several ideological pe­riods. The solution of this rather complicated problem can be found in the deductive search for means of optimization of social life. This method will take much more time and efforts than the other one, which deals with analysis of the aggregate facts of “hot” experienc­es, but it will be more important.

The first step on this road was undertaken in my research devoted to interrelations of Man and Universe. The main results of it were pub­lished in the monograph Man and Universe (1998). This publication was very popular and had one more edition in 1999. The above-men­tioned books demonstrate that personal identity is a functional organ of person’s biological organism. The incomplete scientific knowledge of personal identity has been considerably improved by a complete model of man’s informational organization, which is given in the both editions. It is proven that the potential social world first appears in man’s organization and then, due to trans-actions, transcends into external environment where it creates a special object, e.g.

The second step of my research was devoted to the foundation of the quantum-wave origin of the social world, the development of the theory of the field structure of social life, basing on the idea of pro­cessional character of every social process and proving that, organi­zationally, social structures have organismic forms. The main results of this research were published in the monograph Philosophy of So­cial Universe (1999).

The third step of the research of the universe self-development’s social form was directed to investigate an application of the organis­mic idea as a philosophical instrument that can eliminate the contra­diction between man and society. The theoretical investigation in this field resulted in the monograph Social Organism (1998).

The forth step was devoted to examination of the social world, which is as organizational form localized on the levels of the hierar­chical structure of the Universe. Here we have deal with the special substance of noomanal origin, i.e. created by the man’s mind, from which society and, at last, noosphere are built. The results of my re­search are the basis for the given monograph A Nooman of the Social Organism. I consider all these research steps as the natural way from the abstract things to the concrete ones in the fundamental investi­gation of the social phase in the self-development of the Universe.

The English version of the given research has appeared thanks to the persistent work of As. Professor Olena Tytarenko from Foreign Philology Institute of National Pedagogical Dragomanov University. The scientific editing was carried out by my philosophy department colleague Professor Iryna Predborska, PhD on Philosophy. She did not only edited the text according to the standards of international publi­cations but also scrupulously examined a set of nuances concerning the interpretation of the notions’ meanings in Ukrainian and English versions, constantly consulting with linguists and debating with me. Thus, I am much obliged to these Professors - specialists of the highest level who introduced my philosophical reflections about the problems of noosociogenesis, self-organization and self-regulation of the functional systems to English-speaking readers.

Volodymyr Bekh June, 2010