Sublime

Among the philosophical sources, perhaps most influential was the work of the educator and social innovator Rudolf Steiner, whose synthesis of science, consciousness, and social innovation continues to inspire my work and whose methodological grounding in Goethe’s phenomenological view of science has left the most significant imprint on Theory U.

Allen and Sandow’s view of social systems was influenced by the Chilean biologist Humberto Maturana, who is famous for his pioneering studies of cognition in living systems. Maturana says that intelligent action is created in social systems where all the members of a network accept the others as legitimate participants in the network.

Transition imaginaries, Escobar points out, are different depending on the history and circumstances of where you live. In the Global South, one of the ways they are framed is Buen Vivir—or “Good Living” and collective well-being (sumak kawsay in Quechua). Emerging from the struggles of Indigenous communities, people of African descent, peasants, a

a cultura democrática que vai tentar resistir à lógica da seleção natural para garantir a proteção dos mais fracos.

Adam Appich, master of science, is there with several studies that show how legacy cognitive blindness will forever prevent people from acting in their own best interests.

Pour l’anthropologue Arturo Escobar, les piliers de l’ontologie moderne sont : « l’individualisme, la croyance en la science, en l’économie et en la réalité, incarnés dans une volonté expansionniste de développement à l’échelle planétaire259 ».

This can become a virtuous circle. In the end, it is always and only ever about relationships and organizing.