MEMORIES OF BOULDING,KENNETH,E

The forty-year friendship between the author and Kenneth Boulding was cemented by three affinities: (1) an intense common interest in the sy stem-theoretic approach to the philosophy of science, especially its ' 'organismic'' direction; (2) shared feeling that in its development th e scientific outlook largely bypassed the introspective mode of cognit ion; (3) an uncompromising rejection of violence especially of its san ctioned, rationalized type, organized by power elites (war). The wide divergence of our attitudes toward religion had no effect on the intim acy and intensity of the friendship.