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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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AXIOLOGY 3)

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The discipline that studies the nature of values.

Systemics has an impact of axiology mainly for the following reasons:

- As it instates a hierarchy of embedded and interdependent systems, it should lead to a re-examination of the rights, responsabilities or reciprocal needs of each system and co-system within the corresponding supra- and infrasystems. This subject embraces a wide range of disciplines, from ecology to psychology and sociology.

- As it introduces a strong time-dimension, needs, rights and responsabilities must be considered within a future perspective, corresponding to different time scales.

- As it proposes a specific way to understand the relation of the observer with the observed, and peculiarly, the relations among various observers, systemic axiology needs to focus on consensus and co-participative decision making.

- As systemics introduces a new understanding of the nature of cultural differences, systemic axiology must also strive to find satisfactory transcultural values.

Categories

  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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