Wyjątkowość, przygodność, uniwersalizm

Abstract

The aim of all scientific activity is formulation of general truths, which concern the greatest possible number of entities. Scientific cognitive activity is thus concentrated on what is typical and standard in entities, disregarding the individual, accidental or peculiar features. And yet, non-scientific interests of a human being are directed just towards what is atypical, exceptional, or particular, especially focusing on “oneself*, treated as a separate, unique, and independent being. Some of the findings and tendencies of modem science, however, give us the right to analyse uniqueness within the framework of scientific theory. Thus, whatever is unique - especially the man in the universe - will confirm its value and importance, also as an object of cognition.