Guided Evolution of Society A Systems View
Part Three builds upon the knowledge developed in the first two parts and sets forth the key conditions of conscious, self-guided evolution, elaborating the core condition, which is the acquisition of evolutionary competence through evolutionary learning. The focus of this part is on an approach to...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
2000, 2000
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2000 |
| Series: | Contemporary Systems Thinking
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- I. The Evolutionary Journey of Humankind
- 2. The Evolution of the Evolutionary Idea
- 3. The Story of Human and Societal Evolution: The Evolutionary Journey of Our Ancestors
- 4. The Story of the Evolution of Homo sapiens sapiens
- II. The Journey from Evolutionary Consciousness to Conscious Evolution
- 5. What Have We Learned from the Evolutionary Story?
- 6. From Evolutionary Consciousness to Conscious Evolution
- 7. Calling for Conscious Evolution
- III. Self-Guided Evolution
- 8. Organizing Perspectives and Conditions of Engaging in Self-Guided Evolution
- 9. Self-Guided Societal Evolution
- 10. An Epistemology of Conscious, Self-Guided Evolution
- 11. The Design of Evolutionary Guidance Systems
- 12. The Agoras of the Twenty-First Century
- 13. A Closing Thought
- References