Clinamen as a concept and an important complement in the dialectic of necessity and chance

Bernatskiy V., Makuhin P.

If in a number of previous publications devoted to the problem of the anthropic cosmological principle, we emphasized the unity and opposition of necessity and chance, then in this one, on the contrary, we highlight a «gap», an incompleteness in the argumentation of this dialectical law. In other words, based on the material of the reflections of Epicurus and Lucretius, as well as their like-minded people up to today, we designate a «bridge» for the reverse transition from the designated principle of unity to a different understanding of the «clinamen mechanism». Drawing on the achievements of non-classical natural science, we show that the arguments about the climax of ancient philosophers contain brilliant intuitions.

Keywords:randomness and necessity, determinism, Leucippus and Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius, German classical philosophy, dialectical materialism, microcosm physics and a systematic approach (synergetics, chaos theory).