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The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time
by
Ervin Laszlo
Taking the view that understanding the meaning behind the complex formulas of science is more important than ever, this work attempts to explain the systems view of the world as the paradigm of the latest scientific developments.
Hardcover, 103 pages
Published
June 1st 1996
by Hampton Press (NJ)
(first published 1972)
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7 - the large groups we thus come to deal w/ appear to establish their own 'personalities.' even if most of their individual members change, the groups' characteristics tend to be preserved. for example, over the years athletic teams exchange their players, w/ younger ones replacing the veteran performers. yet the teams usu maintain much of their own characteristics--their tactics and techniques, their fighting spirit, and so on. even more striking is the continuity in t...more
7 - the large groups we thus come to deal w/ appear to establish their own 'personalities.' even if most of their individual members change, the groups' characteristics tend to be preserved. for example, over the years athletic teams exchange their players, w/ younger ones replacing the veteran performers. yet the teams usu maintain much of their own characteristics--their tactics and techniques, their fighting spirit, and so on. even more striking is the continuity in t...more
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a very introspective book analyzing the inseparable parts of nature and that everything we do to everyone and everything else influences ourselves as well as well as challenging the reader to think in enriching simplicity, while inviting complete exploration simultaneously.
... This book is academic, compact and convincing. It is a highbrow sales pitch from a Club of Rome thinker who clearly sees the big picture.
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I'll never do this book justice without writing something longer that it is itself. The mechanistic, reductionist view of the world we got from the classical sciences (from Newton if not before) is inadequate to explain the world. It had already failed in physics, and we're seeing it fail now in our economy and ecology. If you have any curiosity about how our world works as a set of increasingly complex and differentiated, yet interdependent, systems, you owe it to yourself to read this. (I just...more
Beginning was fine. Becomes progressively wretched. Wild generalization will do that.
This book provides a general introduction to the sciences of organized complexity. It covers the history in terms of its emergence and opposition to an atomic view; the qualities that define organizational invariants; and how the systems view differs from the atomic view in terms of one's perception of self, community, and culture. However, it lacks footnotes or rigorous notation to back up its statements or lead to further reading.
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i stole this from my ex girlfriend's father. (sorry) good philosophical discussion.
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Ervin Laszlo is a systems philosopher, integral theorist, and classical pianist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has authored more than 70 books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings.
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