论埃德加·莫兰复杂性思想的三个理论柱石

上世纪末国际上出现的三个重要的复杂性理论既是彼此相通的,又是互有区别的。本文旨在通过阐明其中的埃德加.莫兰的复杂性思想的三个理论柱石来表现其复杂性理论的基本特色。这三个理论柱石是:建立在有序性和无序性统一的基础上的关于能动主体的理论;关于整体与部分相互决定的多中心的或无中心的系统的理论;"把观察者整合到他的观察中"的自我批评的理性主义的认识论理论。由此显示出莫兰的复杂性理论涉及具有普遍意义的哲学的认识论和方法论。

On Three Theoretical Cornerstones of Edgar Morin's Complex Thinking

The three internationally well-known theories of complexity,which appeared by the end of last century,communicate with each other but also differ from each other.This paper aims at demonstrating among them the distinctive features of Morin's complex thinking by clarifying its three theoretical cornerstones.This implicates the following three points: a theory about active subject founded upon the union of order and disorder;a theory about the multicentric or acentric systems,whose whole and parts determine each other;an epistemological theory of autocritical rationalism which "reintroduce the observer into his observation".All this reveals that Morin's theory of complexity relates to a philosophical methodology and epistemology.