Abstract

In this paper, we present the conception of “situationality of being” developed by the author, that is, the extension of the theory of “philosophy of nonbeing”, formulate the generalized definition of the notion “situation”, and explain the essence of the “situationality of being”. The basic principles used to construct this conception make it possible to reveal the philosophical essence of the concept of “situation” and demonstrate a feasible approach to the philosophic categories of being and nonbeing. The conception of the “situationality of being” makes it possible to develop the situational pattern of the world; in accordance with this conception, “the world is the situation of situations”. The world appears before us in the form of one gigantic situation that is due to interaction of various situational factors of different level and different quality, which leads in the long run to a certain situative dynamic balance. From the post-modernistic point of view, this balance can be treated as the entangled rootstock without end and beginning where all is entrance and exit and where there is no middle and order, and where the world is chaosmos. But, nonetheless, we can see in this situational balance the classical system hierarchy, the laws of nature, and ordered self-organization of cosmos. Also presented here are the cognitive levels, such as the metaphysical, ontological, and phenomenological ones reflecting the specificity of the manifestation of “situationality of being”.