Critical Heuristics of Social Planning

By Werner Ulrich

Subjects: critical systems heuristics, system analysis, critical systems thinking, ethics, sociology of knowledge, practical reason, philosophy of social planning, Practical philosophy

Description: Contemporary practical philosophy -- along with functionalistic "systems science" -- has failed to understand the critical significance of the systems idea. This study offers a new approach both to practical philosophy (which thus far has remained rathr unpractical) and to ssstems thinking (which has reduced to the systems idea to a tool of merely instrumental, rather than practical, reason).