Developmental Philosophy

A developmental philosophy has two purposes: to reflect on human activity to examine problems of human adaptation, and to order the values of human activities as they promote human adaptation.

The general problems raised by developmental philosophy first of all lead to scientific activity directed to discovering the facts of the adaptation of human activity as humans overcome problems and challenges of social and material adaptation. This philosophical reflection on knowledge is not a method of truth or for the formation of new knowledge; it is a properly delimited reflection on what is so far known of the human condition, that is, the existing state of our scientific knowledge of human adaptation in whatever diversity it may be. It is directed to the gaps and contradiction so far unresolved in our knowledge which research activity might resolve.

And, second, in reflecting on human adaptation, developmentl philosophy abstracts a general framework, a philosophical wisdom that arises from its comparisons of the relative values of the forms of knowledge and the countervailing resistances that various ideologies present.

Thus, this developmental philosophy attempts to coordinate the 'is' and the 'ought' of human adaptation, and that emphasis on adaptation is due to the fact that the adaptation of the structures of living activity to its environment is the fundamental problem of biology and extends from the adaptation of the most primitive organism to its limited environment up to the most advanced cognitive systems of adaptation to an extensive object of study by the scientist.