DIALECTICAL INTERDEPENDENCE OF THE CONCEPTS 'SECURITY' AND 'DANGER' IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERACTION BETWEEN SYSTEMS OF DIFFERENT NATURES

Abstract

It is found that the phenomena of "safety" and "danger" in the context of the interaction between the systems of different natures determine the nature of social interaction, affect all aspects of social life, and that danger creates the prerequisites for the development of security mechanisms. It is emphasized that traditional approaches do not take into account the dialectical nature and systemic nature of the influence of physical, biological, and social phenomena, which are denoted by the terms "safety" and "danger", which complicates the development of effective strategies for ensuring the security of systems. It has been proven that the dialectical understanding of safety and danger in social systems allows us to consider them not only as objective factors, but also as social constructs that are subjective in nature and determine social interactions, and that the subjective perception of dangers may not correspond to their real content, primarily because these constructs play a key role in shaping the public perception of safety and danger, which can lead to inadequate management decisions. It is substantiated that it is important to take into account the possible sharp increase in social entropy, which leads to social destabilization, and that the security of the social system depends on the characteristics of social interaction, the ability to adapt to new conditions, and the balance between security and danger is a determining factor of its stability, which should be taken into account when developing appropriate management strategies. The role of the categories "essence" and "phenomenon", the features of the use of the terms "notion" and "concept" in the study of these phenomena, as well as understanding the direction and systematicity of the phenomena that generate these phenomena, is revealed. It is found out that the use of a dialectical approach to revealing the content of the phenomena "safety" and "danger" necessitates the need to understand the category "essence" as the internal, deep, relatively hidden, stable side of the object (process) under study, the consequences of the functioning of which are interpreted as safety or danger, and the phenomenon as a category that reflects its external, more variable and obvious characteristics. The role of the categories "essence" and "phenomenon", the features of the use of the terms "notion" and "concept" in the study of these phenomena, as well as understanding the direction and systematicity of the phenomena that generate these phenomena, is revealed. It is found out that the use of a dialectical approach to revealing the content of the phenomena "safety" and "danger" necessitates the need to understand the category "essence" as the internal, deep, relatively hidden, stable side of the object (process) under study, the consequences of the functioning of which are interpreted as safety or danger, and the phenomenon as a category that reflects its external, more variable and obvious characteristics. Therefore, within the framework of the indicated approach, when revealing the content of phenomena that are interpreted as safety or danger, it is necessary to use the term "concept". The analysis of the content of the dialectical laws of development and paired categories (necessity and chance; possibility and reality) allowed us to reach a number of methodological conclusions, in particular, that the change in physical, biological and social phenomena, which are denoted by the above concepts, occurs along an unalternative line of development, which is carried out by its bifurcation into opposite mutually conditioned sides, which are reflected in phenomena, among which some have a safe and others a dangerous influence on the development of the subject, and that the contradiction in the content of "danger" and "safety" reflects the unity of the opposite sides of the tendencies of the development of the subject and is an internal source of its change. It is proven that the concepts of "danger" and "safety" are dichotomous, subordinate to the concept of "development", and their content is determined by the environment of the development of the object and that when crossing the boundary of possible quantitative accumulations within a given quality of the object, a jump occurs, the consequence of which is the possible transformation of "safety" into "danger" and vice versa. Attention is focused on identifying the cause-and-effect relationships of the phenomena denoted by the specified concepts, that is, a clear awareness of which phenomena have or can have a positive or negative impact on the object (process) and therefore are the cause of danger or safety.