The Prehistory of Human Science
It is time to take some breath to see where this philosophical journey has taken us so far. We started with the fundamental questions of philosophy whose answers resulted in the different world-hypotheses developed in the history of Western philosophy, an
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Manel Pretel-Wilson
Utopics
The Unification of Human Science
Contemporary Systems Thinking
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Manel Pretel-Wilson
Utopics The Unification of Human Science
Manel Pretel-Wilson Pretel-Wilson LLC Calonge, Spain
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This book is dedicated to my daughter, Nayade
Preface
You have in your hands, the work of our thinking imagination through its development during the history of Western philosophy and throughout the history of modern science. Until now, our understanding of the progress of knowledge has been obscured by the fact that we are blind to what actually determines the way in which scientists think what they want to understand in the universe. I call this fundamental ground shaping their thinking imagination a world-hypothesis and its development is and has always been, the genuine vocation of philosophy for nearly two and a half millennia. However, today, the situation is different because our civilization has stopped doing philosophy for too long and to such a point, that it has become a burden to the further development of science. We have long forgotten those days in which philosophy and science walked together, giving rise to the Scientific Revolution and, not so long ago, to the “evolutionary synthesis” in biology
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