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Enemies are hostile, out to stop you, to eliminate you and your ideas; they are also to be loved, even as yourself.
The Systems Approach and Its Enemies (1979)
Holism traditionally says that a collection of beings may have a collective property that cannot be inferred from the properties of its members.
The Systems Approach and Its Enemies (1979)
Suppose we consider, not the rationality of holism, but its spirituality. Holism traditionally says that a collection of beings may have a collective property that cannot be inferred from the properties of its members.
The Systems Approach and Its Enemies (1979)
For the goal planner, reality stops at the boundaries of the problem. For the objective- planner, it stops at the boundaries set by feasibility and to some extent by responsibility. For the ideal-planner, there are no "real" boundaries.
The Systems Approach and Its Enemies (1979)
We must face the reality that the enemies offer: what's really happening in the human world is politics, or morality, or religion, or aesthetics. This confrontation with reality is totally different from the rational approach, because the reality of the enemies cannot be conceptualized, approximated, or measured.
The Systems Approach and Its Enemies (1979)
Finally we should note the basic assumption of the classical laboratory-namely, that nature is neither capricious nor secretive. If nature were capricious, she would tell one observer one thing and another observer a quite different thing... Also nature is not secretive, in the sense that she will not forever hide certain aspects of her being...
The Systems Approach and Its Enemies (1979)