Thursday, May 08, 2008

Introduction to Holism




Your homework was to observe the current search for meaning and understanding in our society/culture, and then comment on whether that search appears to be predominantly reductionistic or holistic in nature.


[Here] is a long article with a lot of (maybe relevant) ideas... scroll through it and see if anything jumps out at you.

(I think I mistakenly mixed up 'deconstruction' and 'reduction' when I gave the assignment... I meant to say 'reduction'.)

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