期刊名称：Romanian Review of Political Sciences and International Relations
印刷版ISSN：1841-2300
电子版ISSN：2285-2107
出版年度：2012
卷号：IX
期号：1
页码：59-74
出版社：Romanian Academy Publishing House
摘要：The paper highlights some epistemological significances of the treatment of the problem of energy/energetic security. There are at least two significances of inertia: that of the natural backwardness of things when they change their status from rest to movement or vice versa, and that of the human putting on the brake of different actions, including the understanding of things. In this communication, this second significance is used. For energy is a world problem at least from the 70s of the last century — when researchers have discovered and demonstrated the finite character of resources and the concrete impact of concrete shortage and shortcomings and factors —, the question would be why the problem of energy has increased. In other words, would be sufficient the cognisance of a problem to solve it, or what kind of cognisance would be necessary in order to solve the (energy) problem. Obviously, the first condition to solve a problem is to take into account some states of things, to become attentive to some relationships and contradictions within these states and between them and the environment, to grasp that the traditional knowledge and view about all of these do not answer to the questions raised by the aspects had in view. In some, the first condition is the constitution of the (new) problem itself within the conscience of researcher. But a problem is a very complex entity. It supposes many factors, intertwining, and theories explaining them. More, in a problem there are more, or less known aspects. Consequently, a problem solving has many levels, each of them requiring many directions and toolboxes without which there is no possible to carry on the simulation of the real aspect/problem, thus to understand it. Just in this carrying on, new theories, proves and results do appear, sometimes or even many times diverting the preliminary interest to other ones. The approach of the problem of energy illustrates all of these. First of all, the (this) problem itself supposes to choose the questions to which one has to answer. For example, why takes the energy shortage place. Who uses the most part of energy. Why, and with which results. Is there enough money to research and to find solutions. Why is there not enough. Who is opposing to consider the funding of energy research as a priority. Are there only scientific/technical causes of therhythm of discoveries and results in matter of energy, or also social andpolitical ones. What relationships are there between the problem of rhythmof discoveries and results and, on the other part, their technical/scientificcauses and their social and political motives. In short, the technical/scientific causes would be the reason of the backwardness of the energyproblem solving, or the political ones.By sketching answers to these questions, we could grasp that the sociologicalapproach of the problem is not only sine qua non on a general epistemologicallevel, but helps us to understand that the main present cause of the inertiaof the approach of the energy problem is the political one. The case studyhere is the nuclear fusion strategy, instead of the nuclear fission on whichare based the present nuclear power plants worldwide.
关键词：energy; alternative energy; energy security; inertia; philosophy; ; epistemology; military expenditure
