A developmental philosophy has two purposes: to reflect on human
activity to examine problems of human adaptation, and to order the
values of human activities as they promote human adaptation.
The
general problems raised by developmental philosophy first of all lead to scientific activity
directed to discovering the facts of the adaptation of human activity as humans overcome problems and challenges of social and material adaptation. This philosophical reflection on knowledge is not a method of truth or for the formation of new knowledge; it is a properly delimited reflection on what is so far known of the human condition, that is, the existing state of our scientific knowledge of human adaptation in whatever diversity it may be. It is directed to the gaps and contradiction so far unresolved in our knowledge which research activity might resolve.
And in reflecting on human adaptation, it abstracts a general framework, a philosophical wisdom that arises from its comparisons of the relative values of the
forms of knowledge and the countervailing resistances that various ideologies present.
Thus, this developmental philosophy attempts to coordinate the 'is' and the 'ought' of human adaptation, and that emphasis on adaptation is due to the fact that the adaptation of the structures of living activity to its environment is the fundamental problem of biology and extends from the adaptation of the most primitive organism up to the most advanced cogntive systems of adaptation to an object of study by the scientist.
