mgr Tomasz Pajęcki

Nr ORCID: 0000-0003-4456-2833

The topic of my dissertation is „Sociobiology in light of philosophy of being”

The purpose of the paper will be to show the problematic nature of sociobiology, to define its framework and the internal discourse that defines the currents; to juxtapose this science with philosophical ontological systems; to show the common ground, the range of issues in dispute, as well as areas of non-relationship. Is it possible to have a discourse between the philosophy of being and sociobiology - more broadly, contemporary natural sciences? This question will form the invariable background of the entire work. Contemporary thinkers such as Archbishop Prof. Jozef Zycinski and Rev. Prof. Michal Heller make juxtapositions, most often in terms of new ways of understanding physics with Christian culture more broadly. They try to reconcile physical science with Christianity. However, when one juxtaposes the conceptual apparatus of classical philosophy - Aristotelianism, Platonism or Christian currents, i.e. Thomistic scholasticism - with the conceptual apparatus found in sociobiology, and therefore also in neo-Darwinism, a complete misunderstanding emerges. How to understand chance in evolution? What is natural selection? How to understand it in terms of chance? Does evolution take place completely outside the realm of Aristotelian formal, material, causal and purposive causes? Will chance in evolution still be such when man deliberately begins to alter individual genomes in organisms? Can expediency emerging from chance become causal expediency in light of the causes developed by the Stagirite? Can the ways of St. Thomas Aquinas lead not to God, but to man?