Alle origini della teoria dell'atto biologico di Viktor von Weizsäcker / Vallori Rasini.
Abstract:
Between the thirties and forties of this century, drawing on a number of studies of perception and phenomena of sensory illusion, the neurophysiologist Viktor von Weizsaecker developed a conception of organic matter which was fundamentally different to the physiological and biological tradition of his time. For this reason, his theory of the Gestaltkreis required a profound revision of the methodological and conceptual instruments to be used in the study of man, and of the organism more generally. The organic entity is not a comparible object to the entities of physics, and ita analysis cannot be subjected to the same criteria and methods of that science. This being is properly termed a "biological act", a dynamic reality whose structure is circular and cannot be divided into different phases connected by means of casual relationships. Organic processes involve a particular relationship between impossible to remove it from its context. Instead, it is necessary to evaluate the spatial and temporal positions in which is located in new, non-"objective" terms. Weizsaecker's conception, sensitive to the neovitalism (to which he was nonetheless firmly opposed) and to ideas typical of Romantic science, is essentially opposed to the legacy of mechanism, in the name of a biology as the science of a peculiar object, of which one cannot ignore the subjective component
Nuncius A. 14, fasc. 2 (1999), p. 471-489