Page 150 - Wholeness

According to Durkheim, the functional whole is the pathway
towards social development. Durkheim’s most significant

philosophical solution reveals the social dynamics that changes
social relationships.

The functional whole needs to be seen as a unit, not as a

collective of individuals who live in a state. The whole is the total
number of individuals on the planet Earth, the unity of the whole

creates equality, trust and prosperity in the development of both
the society and the individual.

Anthropology as science has seen the need for the creation of

unified education, unified legal system, unified governance… The
initial or starting prerequisite is to raise collective consciousness

that will clearly see what is beneficial for the society. Collective
consciousness will create better social relationships in the whole

that will lead to collective serenity and well-being.

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) is a central figure in modern
philosophy. His contribution to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics

and aesthetics had a lasting effect on almost all of the
subsequent philosophical movements.

The only motive that can produce moral value, he claims, is the
one resulting from

“universal principles discovered through reason”.

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