Evoluism as a Philosophy of Post-Totalising World-Understanding

Evoluism does not give the final picture of the world. It frees thought from the need for one. This article presents Evoluism as a philosophy of post-totalising world-understanding. Contemporary thought often claims to have moved beyond metaphysics, yet the dream of a final worldview persists under new names: Theory of Everything, total ontology, computational universe, technological destiny, and total ideology. The article argues that this dream is structurally unstable because it attempts to make one world of distinctions speak for Reality itself. At the centre of the argument is the asymmetry between Reality and World. A world is a regime in which distinctions acquire force, stability, and meaning; Reality is not another world, nor the sum of all worlds, but the limit that prevents any world from becoming the whole. From this asymmetry follows the structural impossibility of strong universal theory: every theory requires distinctions, distinctions require conditions of applicability, and conditions imply a regime in which they retain force. Universalisation therefore operates as limitation: a theory can appear to encompass “everything” only by narrowing what counts as real, thinkable, or meaningful to what its own distinctions can retain. Against this tendency, Evoluism does not offer a new final worldview. It transforms the form of world-understanding from possession to orientation. Through its three-register architecture — scientific, philosophical, and metaphysical-meaning — it coordinates different modes of articulation without allowing any one of them to claim final authority over Reality. The article develops the consequences of this position for truth, science, philosophy, meaning, the Absolute, the possibility of a personal God, culture, ideology, and register literacy.