Wholeness

About Wholeness

Born: April 30, 2020

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Notable quotes

“Holism traditionally says that a collection of beings may have a collective property that cannot be inferred from the properties of its members.”
— C. West Churchman, in The Systems Approach and Its Enemies (1979), p. 212
“Enterprise architecture is a holistic representation of all the components of the enterprise and the use of graphics and schemes are used to emphasize all parts of the enterprise, and how they are interrelated."”
— Gordon Bitter Davis, in The Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Management Information Systems‎ (1999), p. 72
“Much of philosophy concerns man's search for holistic concepts which will help him see a meaningful pattern in the complexity with which his perceptual world confronts him. What is new is the rapidly growing intensity of the quest, and the modern context of the search. Plato's Republic is from a world quite different from that of Boguslaw's. The New Utopians.”
— Richard F. Ericson, in Organizational Cybernetics and Human Values (1969), p. 1
“Parts and wholes evolve in consequence of their relationship, and the relationship itself evolves. These are the properties of things that we call dialectical: that one thing cannot exist without the other, that one acquires its properties from its relation to the other, that the properties of both evolve as a consequence of their interpenetration.”
— Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin, in The Dialectical Biologist (1985), Introduction, p. 3
“Waldorf education has been an important model of holistic education for almost a century. It is one of the very few forms of education that acknowledges the soul-life of children and nurtures that life. It is truly an education for the whole child and will continue to be an important model of education as we move into the 21st century.”
— Jack Miller, Professor, Coordinator of Holistic and Aesthetic Education in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at the University of Toronto
“The basic thesis of gestalt theory might be formulated thus: there are contexts in which what is happening in the whole cannot be deduced from the characteristics of the separate pieces, but conversely; what happens to a part of the whole is, in clear-cut cases, determined by the laws of the inner structure of its whole.”
— Max Wertheimer (1920/45), Productive thinking. Harper & Row Publishers. p. 84

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