Hans-Georg Moeller
Auteur de The Philosophy of the Daodejing
A propos de l'auteur
Hans-Georg Moeller is professor of philosophy at the University of Macau. His books include The Philosophy of the Daodejing (2006), The Moral Fool: A Case for Amorality (2009), and The Radical Luhmann (2011), all from Columbia University Press.
Crédit image: From web-site https://ias.um.edu.mo/2022-ias-fellow-prof-hans-georg-moeller/
Œuvres de Hans-Georg Moeller
Schiller Friedrich — Wilhelm Tell — mit Materialien (1998) — Directeur de publication — 12 exemplaires
Der Majuskelgebrauch im Deutschen : Gross- und Kleinschreibung theoretisch, empirisch, ontogenetisch (2016) 3 exemplaires
On Zhuangzi and Kierkegaard.(The Sense of Antirationalism: The Religious Thought of Zhuangzi and Kierkegaard)(Book… 1 exemplaire
Critique, Subversion, and Chinese Philosophy: Sociopolitical, Conceptual, and Methodological Challenges (2020) 1 exemplaire
Laughter in eastern and western philosophies : proceedings of the Académie du Midi (2010) 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1964-12-06
- Sexe
- male
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Zero stars for chapter 1, two stars for the rest of the book.
Chapter 1 on "What is social systems theory?" is worse than useless. It is worthless trash based on an amazingly stupid misunderstanding and misuse of systems theory. If you know enough to see what is wrong with it you do not need to read it, and if not you may be misinformed and misled.
Some readers may find some things of use in the rest of the book. I found the chapter on the Luhmann-Habermas debate worth reading.
Chapter 1 on "What is social systems theory?" is worse than useless. It is worthless trash based on an amazingly stupid misunderstanding and misuse of systems theory. If you know enough to see what is wrong with it you do not need to read it, and if not you may be misinformed and misled.
Some readers may find some things of use in the rest of the book. I found the chapter on the Luhmann-Habermas debate worth reading.
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To each system the others are just the environment, they influence the system, but not in any direct, simply input-output related way. The systems has it's own rules / ways of digesting the input and creating things from it that make sense to it.
Just like a living organism takes it's food and energy from the environment, and creates Picasso's with it. Who could have guessed such a relation between input (potatoes) and output?
Anyway, this view goes a long way in making clear why politics so often seems to come to nothing, or why the economy takes its own fearful course.
The book is not very factual however, if you want to know more about the abstract theory of complex adaptive systems. Or want to know how exactly (e.g.) the mass media is an example of such a system.… (plus d'informations)