Ontological COnflict?

Question

What is the meaning of the term ontological conflict?

Answer 1

The website below will give you a good overview of ontology in terms of the philosophical.
The "conflict" piece comes in when you are wrestling within yourself, and/or the larger context (culture, etc ...) with any of these areas.

Be well ... and good luck. IMHO, an ontological conflict is much nicer than an existential crisis!

Answer 2

Rather, "ontological conflict" denotes the clash of two opposing representations of ontology or ontological assumptions. Ontology is the philosophical subdiscipline of metaphysics that asks the question, "what exists" or "what is the character of what exists?" Take the average American ontological assumption that there are two orders of being (human and supreme God) and imagine how, from that assumption, ethical decisions about how other groups of people (or, say, animals) should be treated might be formed. Now compare that to, for example, a Native American ontology which believes humans and animals to be on the same or a similar "level" of being and, as such, ethical decisions are made quite differently compared to a Euro-American. So, ontological conflict is something like a clash of two worldviews, but goes deeper than worldview (the idea that there is one world and different perspectives on it) to acknowledge that there are many different worlds (ie. the world of a Euro-American cultural Christian and the world of a Muslim).

Answer 3

Ontology is a metaphysical term that has to do with the nature of being. Ontological conflict has to do with chaos in terms of the nature of existence.