21世紀の日本の地質学  [in Japanese] Japanese geology in the 21st century  [in Japanese]

Abstract

地質学は生命の起源とその歴史の解明を究極の目標として実証主義的な立場から膨大なデータを蓄積してきた。実際には, 人間の生活に直に役に立つ物質の探索である鉱床探査など応用科学的側面が強かったとしても, 純粋に知的な目的は我々人類の起源と歴史を知り, 我々の将来を洞察することであったに違いない。データの蓄積が一応のまとまりを見せた時代に応じて地質学者は生命の誕生・進化や生命を育んだ固体地球の変動の理論を構築してきたが, 21世紀の地質学は扱う対象を"もっと広い空間, もっと長い時間"へと拡大し, 多圏地球全体をカバーする地球変動システムの統一原理と地球の歴史の全貌を明らかにするだろう。その結果, 我々を待ち受ける地球の未来が具体的な形で地質学者に問われるようになり, 地質学は政治の問題と深く関わりあうようになるだろう。また現在驚異的なスピードで蓄積しつつあるデータは人類が神に選ばれた存在ではなく, 人類は他のどの生物とも同格の関係にあることを実証しつつある。この事実は新しい哲学が地質学を核として生れることを意味している。このような新しい時代に日本から何が発信できるのか, その具体的な方策を提言した。

Geology has long served as one of the major tools to understand the origin of life and the history of our planet Earth, on the standing point of view of Positivism. Geologists have proposed the theories on origin and evolution of life, and on the dynamics of the solid Earth which has grown our lives. The geology in the 21st century would extend such targets into a much wider space and into a much longer time period. As a result, our inteligence would clarify the unified theory of the dynamics of whole Earth covering the central core through mantle, plate, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere to magnetosphere, and the history of Earth back to 15 Ga. Consequently, geologists will be responsible for predicting the state of the tommorow's Earth and be involved in the politics. Our knowledge on the origin of human being has accumulated with an abnormally high-speed during the last 100 years, and demonstrated that we have not been selected by the God but are equal to the other lives. The more increased data seting cology in addition to molecular biology would help to bear a new concept or new philosophy of humanbeing in the next century. To dispatch messages in the next century over the world from Japan, I propose several thoughts and concrete plans to our society.

Journal

The memoirs of the Geological Society of Japan   [List of Volumes]

The memoirs of the Geological Society of Japan (49), 167-183, 1998-03-27  [Table of Contents]

The Geological Society of Japan

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  • NII Article ID (NAID) :
    110003026004
  • NII NACSIS-CAT ID (NCID) :
    AN00141779
  • Text Lang :
    JPN
  • Article Type :
    ART
  • ISSN :
    03858545
  • NDL Article ID :
    4917890
  • NDL Source Classification :
    ZM49(科学技術--地球科学--地質)
  • NDL Call No. :
    Z15-322
  • Databases :
    CJP  NDL  NII-ELS