BAC 2001 Newsletter 3 [12 July 2001]

Newsletter 3 [12 July 2001] http://www.bertalanffy.org/index.shtml

Bertalanffy Anniversary Conference 2001
UNITY THROUGH DIVERSITY

International Conference on Systems Thinking Globally Concerned
November 1-4, 2001
University of Vienna and Vienna University of Technology

Conference Fee:
Rich countries EURO 140
Poor countries EURO 70
Students EURO 50

Every person planning to attend BAC 2001 "Unity through Diversity" is
invited to participate in one or several of the Symposia (listed below)
that have been programmed for recognizing and criticizing constructively
some of the contributions made by Ludwig von Bertalanffy in order to
examine through a debate organized by the same participants feasible
options leading to create reliable circumstances for pushing ahead the
Bertalanffian ideology at the dawn of the 21st century

Symposium (I). "The creation of a sustainable society depends on Innovative
Systems Thinking (IST) supported by General Systems Weltanschauung (GSW)"
aims at exploring how it might be feasible to reach Sustainable Development
as a steady state or flow equilibrium of humankind's dynamics.

Symposium (II) "Wholism (or Holism) The way forward into the 21st century"
aims at searching further how human beings may and also should learn to
develop their way of thinking for clearly seeing the forest before they may
start dealing with one or another tree; and also for grasping the meaning
of a tree before trying to handle one of the leaves or a flower or a fruit.

Symposium (III) "General Systems Theory as a Methodological Maxim" aims at
pondering why and how GST could and should prescribe better foresight
rather than hindsight; be used for crisis prevention in preference to
crisis management: may widen the scope of inquiry for asking first whether
a certain project, policy or action is justified,...

Symposium (IV) "New Image of Man and Woman" supported by a new General
Anthropology" aims at searching reliable ways for building the
interdisciplinary enterprise (comprising human biology, psychology,
psychiatry, sociology, linguistics, economics, the arts,...) that may help
to create societal circumstances needed for allowing the individual
emergence during the life of every person learning on his/her own to
consciously develop his/her peculiar personality, while his/her intrinsic
spontaneity was confronted to diverse cultural, economic and social
conditions determined peculiarly by the performance of those humans that
constitute every human society,...

Symposium (V) "Development of Perspectivism, as a Systems Epistemology"
aims at making more evident the disciplinary and mutidisciplinary validity
of the Bertalanffian Perspectivism as a way of getting closer and closer,
though diversely, to the 'absolute truth' of every aspect of the whole
reality through the truth of many different perspectives of each one of
these aspects, gradually as soon as each perspective is expressed.

Symposium (VI) "Business based on Bertalanffy's Weltanschauung" aims at
searching how to build the optional circumstances that are needed for the
emergence of a new ENTREPRENEURSHIP SPIRIT. The spirit required for leading
business to be oriented by the "Weltanschauung" suggested by Bertalanffy,
as the global awareness that may generate the ecological, ethological &
ethical values needed: 1) for taking care of the proper preservation of
GAIA's features; 2) for maintaining the BIODIVERSITY that may help humans
to learn how to increase the survival chances of our species; 3) for making
feasible to interpret humanely and implement cogently a Terrestrial Bill of
HUMAN RIGHTS and COMMITMENTS.

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Everybody is invited to send a 'position text ' (around 1000 words),
arguments and comments, for the Conversazione that will take place before
the Conference. Abstracts of papers (500 words), for being submitted in the
Conference, may also be sent to

 elohimjl <elohimjl@mail.zserv.tuwien.ac.at>

For taking part in the conversazione before the conference it is necessary
to send the text:

subscribe bertalanffy-list"
to
lists@igw.tuwien.ac.at

Everybody may visit http://www.bertalanffy.org/discus where all the
previous and following contributions for the debate are included
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For further information send a message to:

 elohimjl <elohimjl@mail.zserv.tuwien.ac.at>
Received on Thu Jul 12 03:20:00 2001