Prof. W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz
Evolutionity is a new evolutionary epoch which is to replace modernity and postmodernity. Its idea has been introduced in W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz’s Tractatus Politico-Philosophicus: New Directions for the Future Development of Humankind (Routledge 2017), as well as in a few of his journal articles. While modernity was inspired by the mechanistic and deterministic view of the universe emerging from modern science, and postmodernity, which has been born out of dissatisfaction with modernity, has in turn been characterized by unsolved problems related to globalization, political instability and a regress to irrationality, evolutionity, as an alternative perspective, is inspired by the idea of conscious human evolution, and by a holistic worldview. Its result is a civilizational advancement for the whole human race. It can guide us to the new politics based on the awareness of human identity that can overcome old divisions among humankind and conflicts derived from them. It can initiate a new epoch of human progress and prosperity. Are we now ready for evolutionity? What are the conditions of human growth and what does it mean to advance a civilization? Can we also face a civilizational decline? What are the current obstacles to human progress? How to distinguish between progressive and static civilizations? What are the main challenges that endanger the civilizational advancement of humankind? These are some of the questions that will be raised and discussed.
