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Beyond Uncertainties: Some Open Questions about Chaos and Ethics

Author(s) -

Teresa Kwiatkowska

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

ethics and the environment

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.251

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 1535-5306

pISSN - 1085-6633

DOI - 10.1353/een.2001.0007

Subject(s) - chaos (operating system) , engineering ethics , environmental ethics , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , engineering , computer security

Lately, a new language for the understanding of the complexity of life (organism, ecosystem, and social system) has been developed. Chaos, fractals, dissipative structures, self-organization, and complex adaptive systems are some of its key concepts. On this view, reality is not the deterministic structure that Newton envisaged, but rather, a partially unknown or at least unpredictable world of multiple possibilities. As the horizon of our knowledge of natural realities expands, the emergent comprehensive perspective requires a radical reconstruction of both the concrete structure upon which human life is materially built and the symbolic structure that reason has schemed.

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