Human Integrity in the Context of Information Influences: a transdisciplinary horizon of understanding

Abstract

This article substantiates the necessity of applying a transdisciplinary approach to understanding human integrity under conditions of informational influences. It argues that the narrow disciplinary principle traditionally employed in the study of the human being in its unity with the world is insufficient, particularly in light of both contemporary scientific discoveries and the cultural-historical experience accumulated by different peoples. What is required is a transition to a higher level of reflection made possible by transdisciplinarity as a distinctive type of scientific paradigm that extends beyond the Kuhnian model.The aim of the article is to substantiate the transdisciplinary foundations of the study of human integrity in the context of informational influences. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is Basarab Nicolescu's transdisciplinarity, which, through the introduction of the concept of the Hidden Third, justifies the constant and indissoluble unity of the subject and object of knowledge as coexisting in a common field that has an informational nature and unites them. The article concludes that transdisciplinarity as a special type of scientific paradigm opens a new horizon for understanding a person as an informational integrity. Expressed through the unity of its two dimensions, designated in accordance with the requirements of rationality as the subject and object of knowledge, human integrity is simultaneously grounded in a common ontological foundation shared by all that exists – information as a fundamental constituent of being. Accordingly, interaction with information shapes the individual’s personal world, that is, subjective reality, which may exist in a state of correspondence or non-correspondence with objective reality, the ideal state of the world, or the realities of others. Thus, the focus of transdisciplinarity encompasses not only the structurally complex integrity of the human being, but also subjective reality as the form of its manifestation. Under contemporary conditions, this provides a basis for analysing both constructive and destructive informational influences on the state of human integrity and, consequently, for developing appropriate strategies for its protection, restoration, and support at the level of both the individual and society as a whole.