Two ontic orders (Hayek's concept of endogenous and exogenous orders, Bohm's concept of implicative and explicative orders and Popper's concept of three worlds)
J. Smajs, Two ontic orders (Hayek's concept of endogenous and exogenous orders, Bohm's concept of implicative and explicative orders and Popper's concept of three worlds), FILOZOFIA, 56(1), 2001, pp. 13-24
The author begins with a brief commentary on three philosophically remarkab
le concepts: F.A. Hayek's concept of endogenous and exogenous orders, D. Bo
hm's concept of implicative and explicative orders and K.R. Popper's concep
t of the three worlds. On Hayek he appreciates particularly his emphasizing
the endogenous order, on Bohm on the other hand his distinguishing between
the explicative and implicative orders. He, however criticizes Bohm's conc
eption for its not offering a possibility of defining the ontic opposition
of culture against nature. Popper's conception of the three worlds he criti
cizes for its mostly gnoseological nature: according to Popper it is the wo
rld II, which makes the effect of the world III on the world I possible. Pa
rtially following D. Bohm the author sees two orders-an explicative and an
implicative one-in nature as well as in culture. The order embodies not onl
y the intrinsic constitutive processes and the rules of the natural and cul
tural construology, i.e. the explicative order, but also the external outco
me of the ontic creative process with its phenotypic forms, i.e. the explic
ative order. Additionally, to this dualism of orders he argues that there a
re two different kinds of evolution-the natural and the cultural ones. His
suggestion to recognize two world orders aims at a more proper philosophica
l understanding of the ontic opposition of culture against nature including
the determination of the presuppositions of their long-term possible coevo
lution and compatibility.