Ludwig von Bertalanffy

Ludwig von Bertalanffy believed that the overall fate of the world depends on the adoption by humanity of a new set of values, based on a general systems Weltanschauung (worldview). The General System Theory that Bertalanffy conceived is a culmination of his general systems insights into biological, behavioral, social, and epistemological domains, while fighting specifically against the reductionist approaches and the mechanist interpretations that dehumanize human beings through robotomorphism, zoomorphism, scientism, and other narrow-minded and shortsighted assumptions that have been used extensively by people without realizing that it is impossible and improper to simplify the complexity inherent to whatever human concern. In this site there is a great deal of information about Bertalanffy and the systems movement.

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