Kumpulan karangan ini dimaksudkan sebagai kontribusi dalam perdebatan tentang fungsi sosial filsafat pada masyarakat pluralistis, khususnya perdebatan tentang purnamodernisme. Bahasan tentang impian dan trans, makna purnamodernisme, supremasi atas pendidikan, filsafat yang berkesudahan, serta antihumanisme, dekonstruksi, dan fragmentasi identitas, yang termuat di dalamnya, merupakan wacana tepa…
In "What is Philosophy?" the philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand analyzes the datum of knowledge itself in its different forms, from the most casual perception of some object in our naive experience to "a priori knowledge", taken as consisting of absolutely certain insights into "necessary essences". Plato's central teaching about the kind of human knowledge which transcends the world of time a…
Gathered here are Ludwig von Bertalanffy's writings on general systems theory, selected and edited to show the evolution of systems theory and to present it applications to problem solving. An attempt to formulate common laws that apply to virtually every scientific field, this conceptual approach has had a profound impact on such widely diverse disciplines as biology, economics, psychology, a…