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Towards Synergism

The Cosmic Significance of the Human Civilizational Project

Anthony E. Mansueto Jr.

Towards Synergism makes a powerful case for understanding the universe as a relational and self-organizing system. The author shows that human civilization serves as the center for the dynamic complexity of the system of our universe. The author encourages us to appreciate this vitally significant role of human civilization by arguing that human creativity, not exchange, is the motivational force for social progress. This book explores the current crisis of the human civilization project and the simultaneous crisis of market and socialist systems. The author draws explicitly on developments in the new science, focusing on unified field theory, complex systems theory, post-Darwinian evolutionary biology, and anthropic cosmology. Mansueto also provides broad comparative historical and comparative sociological evidence. This timely, detailed, and insightful study will prove useful to natural and social scientists from many disciplines, as well as philosophers and theologians, religious, political, and even corporate leaders who are firmly grounded in the philosophical tradition.
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University Press of America
Pages: 552 • Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-0083-5 • Hardback • December 1995 • $147.00 • (£113.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
978-0-7618-0084-2 • Paperback • December 1995 • $89.99 • (£69.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
Subjects: Philosophy / Reference
Anthony E. Mansueto, Jr. is President and Research Director, Institute for Philosophy and Social Progress, Dallas, Texas.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Dialectic, Cosmos, and Society
Chapter 4 The Social Form of Matter
Chapter 5 The Mandate of Heaven
Chapter 6 The Mandate of the People
Chapter 7 The Mandate of History
Chapter 8 The Next Steps in the Human Civilizational Project
Chapter 9 Bibliography and Indices

Towards Synergism

The Cosmic Significance of the Human Civilizational Project

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Hardback
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Summary
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  • Towards Synergism makes a powerful case for understanding the universe as a relational and self-organizing system. The author shows that human civilization serves as the center for the dynamic complexity of the system of our universe. The author encourages us to appreciate this vitally significant role of human civilization by arguing that human creativity, not exchange, is the motivational force for social progress. This book explores the current crisis of the human civilization project and the simultaneous crisis of market and socialist systems. The author draws explicitly on developments in the new science, focusing on unified field theory, complex systems theory, post-Darwinian evolutionary biology, and anthropic cosmology. Mansueto also provides broad comparative historical and comparative sociological evidence. This timely, detailed, and insightful study will prove useful to natural and social scientists from many disciplines, as well as philosophers and theologians, religious, political, and even corporate leaders who are firmly grounded in the philosophical tradition.
Details
Details
  • University Press of America
    Pages: 552 • Trim: 6 x 9
    978-0-7618-0083-5 • Hardback • December 1995 • $147.00 • (£113.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
    978-0-7618-0084-2 • Paperback • December 1995 • $89.99 • (£69.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
    Subjects: Philosophy / Reference
Author
Author
  • Anthony E. Mansueto, Jr. is President and Research Director, Institute for Philosophy and Social Progress, Dallas, Texas.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Chapter 1 Preface
    Chapter 2 Introduction
    Chapter 3 Dialectic, Cosmos, and Society
    Chapter 4 The Social Form of Matter
    Chapter 5 The Mandate of Heaven
    Chapter 6 The Mandate of the People
    Chapter 7 The Mandate of History
    Chapter 8 The Next Steps in the Human Civilizational Project
    Chapter 9 Bibliography and Indices

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