System

This book is dedicated to the consolidation and to the expansion of theoretic systems thinking
as a necessary integration of the general reductionist and analytical attitude dominant in our
culture. Reductionism and analytical approaches have produced significant results in many
fields of contemporary knowledge giving a great contribution to relevant scientific discoveries
and to their technological application, but their validity has been improperly universalized as
the only and best methods of knowledge in every domain. It is nowadays clear that analytical
or mereological approaches are inadequate to solve many problems and that we should
introduce – or support the diffusion of - new concepts and different research attitudes. A good
candidate to support such a shift is the well known theoretical approach based on the concept
of “system” that no more considers the elementary constituents of an object, but the entity
emerging from the relations and interactions among its elementary parts. It becomes possible
to reconstruct several domains, both philosophical and scientific, from the systemic point of
view, introducing fresh ideas in the research in view of a general rational vision of the world on
more comprehensive basis.