Abstract

A "round table" on the theme "The Dialectics of the Social and the Biological: Problems and Conceptions " was held in 1985 in Sevastopol ' under the auspices of the local section of the Philosophical Society of the USSR. The topic of the relationship between the social and the biological in the development of man in society is an important one in view of the heightened role of scientific knowledge in general, and of social knowledge in particular, in implementing the CPSU's program for accelerating the country's socioeconomic development. [Its importance lies] not only in the way in which these two principles, these two "contiguous" but qualitatively different forms of organization and movement of matter—the biological and the social—are linked together in man and society, but also in the practical question of how both these factors are integrated in the process of forming the all-around and harmoniously developed individual