Problem
Anti-holism
Nature:
The human being may be considered as the prime example of holistic engineering. However, while human machines articulate large numbers of parts into great wholes, the ability to relate the parts of behavioural and societal activities and structures seems to lie outside human competence. Holism as a standard or ideal to apply to human efforts and goals seems to evoke a holophobia, a fear that this is incompatible with scientific methods, and while there are numbers of distinguished physical, natural and social scientists who are proponents, or tend towards holistic ideals, there are some scientists who do not acknowledge the complementarity between holistic and analytic methods. Anti-holism characterizes resistance to educational developments, particularly to the educational renaissance that has rediscovered the systemic integrity and developmental possibilities of the human being; and also resistance to reforms in medicine and health services in favour of maintaining segmented and unconnected departments. Narrower Problems:
Fragmentation of researchFragmentation of knowledgeFragmentation of the human personality Related Problems:
Blind belief in a homogenous reality Reduced By:
Anti-scienceSubject(s):
Interdisciplinarity → Interdisciplinarity Problem Type:
F: Fuzzy exceptional problems Date of last update
04.10.2020 – 22:48 CEST