Dear Mozibur,
Thank you very much for reading my essay and your very important, deep and benevolent comment. I agree with you that in our time of increasing existential threats and risks, the role of scientists, the role of the Academy should increase, with the goal of finding ways to more sustainable development of Humanity, deepening the dialogue between Man and Nature. I believe that the role of philosophy in society, in global and regional governance should sharply increase. New generations should be wiser, so I propose to introduce the subject "Philosophy for Children" from the 1st grade of the school. Otherwise, there is a danger that homo ludens will defeat homo sapiens sapiens not only in games. In turn, science should strive for greater openness and activity. Let us recall the Manifesto of Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein of 1955 when the Pugwash movement of scientists was created.
It is wonderful that you are familiar with the work of Nikolai Berdyaev. His philosophy makes us think about the modern development of global society and the ways of science as a continuous creative process.
About the "Logos" and the "Principle". The holistic paradigm of the Universe being as an eternal process of generating of meanings and structures requires the construction of not only an ontological basis of knowledge, but also an ontological unity of knowledge and faith, a unified ratio, emotio, intuitio. As studies have shown, the millennia-old history of the development of knowledge and faith says that faith always went ahead. I chose the first inference from the Gospel of John in Greek as the First-Axiom (Meta-axiom) to construct the ontological basis of knowledge: Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος ...... In the ancient Greek dictionary of I. Dvoretsky "λόγος/Logos" has 34 nests of meanings. On the one hand, "λόγος/Logos" is speech or recognition of the law, meaning, basis and structure of a thing. On the other hand, "λόγος/Logos" is a metaphysical reality, the law of things, and in this sense is a cosmological hypostasis. The first beginning of Nature in the great dialectic of Heraclitus - "Logos" is interpreted in different meanings. But the central meaning is the "eternal" divine law ", which follows all that exists. The "Logos" is also the Speech with which Nature addresses and controls individual things. Sometimes Heraclitus calls the Logos "the mind that rules the Cosmos." The "Logos" of Heraclitus does not exist separately from things, he abides in all things. The "Logos" of Heraclitus is an ontological category. It establishes both the structure of the Cosmos existence, and its frame, limits. The "Logos" of Heraclitus is the law of the unity of opposites that defines cosmic cycles, also governs the nature of man (cycles of sleep and wakefulness, life and death), craft and art. The "Logos" of Heraclitus also acquires the meanings of "measure", "volume", "teaching."
The primary principle or "Principle of principles", that is, the principle that generates all other epistemological principles, is the Principle of the triunity, which we can observe in Nature, its structure. "Structure" in Russian «с-трое-ние»" . The root of the word is the number «three». From ancient mythology, we know that the world always rested on three pillars: three elephants, three turtles, three whales ... So the First Axiom and First Principle allow us to unite all flows of knowledge and faith. From the Logos, knowledge flows in two directions: to the Creator through faith and to Creation, to the Universe through knowledge.
On the unity of Knowledge and Faith, the mathematician said well that Vladimir Voevodsky (1966-2017) was awarded the Fields Prize:
"What we now call the crisis of Russian science is not crisis of only Russian science. There is a crisis of world science. Real progress will consist in a very serious fight between science and religion, which will end in their unification."
Yes, I agree completely: we need a New Renaissance. Philosophy, "mother of all sciences", in this Great Common Cause, is our first mate. Therefore: "Physics, do not be afraid of Metaphysics!", "Physics, do not be afraid of dialectics!"
Warm Wishes,
Vladimir