THE TRAP OF EVOLUTIONARY ORGANICISM

Authors
Citation
R. Fuenmayor, THE TRAP OF EVOLUTIONARY ORGANICISM, Systems practice, 6(5), 1993, pp. 469-499
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Management
Journal title
ISSN journal
08949859
Volume
6
Issue
5
Year of publication
1993
Pages
469 - 499
Database
ISI
SICI code
0894-9859(1993)6:5<469:TTOEO>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
This article is a slightly summarized version of an invited plenary at the Aegean Seminar, which took place at the Greek island of Samos in July 1992. The original title was ''An Interpretive Systemological Vie w of the issue: 'Environmental Fluctuations and Cultural Change in Isl and Societies.''' It is an hermeneutical inquiry into the interpretive context that provides full meaning to the issue of Environmental Fluc tuations and Cultural Change. The roots of the relationship of causali ty embedded in such a title are traced so that its underlying ontologi cal assumptions are uncovered. This sort of archaeological inquiry wil l finally unearth the interpretive context that provides full meaning to such a relationship of causality, namely, neo-evolutionary organici sm. This theoretical outcome of Modernity embraces natural and social sciences under the aegis of a single way of thinking, feeling, and act ing which buries the Enlightenment conception of liberty and its conse quent problem of morality and of practical reason.