Edgar Morin: From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Circles. Issue 2 (17th February 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Anselmo, Annamaria
• Is Part Of: World futures. Volume 74:Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 68
• Page End: 83
• Publication Date: 2018-02-17
• Subjects: Circularit -- encyclopedialization -- inter-retroaction -- meta-pan-epistemology -- organization -- pluri-ring -- reticular causality -- ring -- superphoenix -- unitas-multiplex; Philosophy -- Periodicals; Forecasting -- Periodicals; 303
• DOI: 10.1080/02604027.2017.1357933
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0260-4027

Abstract

Abstract : Morin stresses the danger of the tendency to apply the method of natural sciences to human disciplines, considering the latter a natural object, and seeking one great explicative and definitive mathematical cosmological form by means of the reduction of the anthropological aspect to the biological one, of the biological to the physical–chemical aspect and the physical to the mathematical aspect. Hence the need to find a new way of organizing knowledge based on the concept of "circularity, " which is fundamental both in Morin's thought and in the philosophy of complexity in general. We must therefore establish a circular relation among the various spheres of knowledge: physics–biology–anthropology–sociology. The classical vision of a hierarchized-mechanic world is substituted by the vision of a reticulated world.