Complexity quality as relevant category of post-nonclassical philosophy and science

Abstract

The modern understanding of complexity theory gives it a functional meaning of a way of dialectic intensification that provides a chance to talk about some new methodological processes of socio-cultural and socio-historical processes of learning and cognition, as well as human-dimension systems. The author suggests that we should introduce a new category such as “complexity quality”, reflecting a post-nonclassical understanding of a “quality” category from the perspective of complexity theory. This quality-study of complexity quality represents a category in the form of a complex system of multiple properties and characteristics, correlating in different ways on the basis of a systems approach by Hermann Haken. Thus, this quality-research justifies not only the introduction of complexity quality for assimilating quality by the theory of complexity, but the attachment of complexity quality to modern philosophy and science, and besides it’s not only a dialectical or practical category, but an independent system concept as well, which combines a lot of significations and functions.