quantumbooks

Author: Prigogine, Ilya
Isbn 13: 9789812385086
ISBN: 9812385088
Pub Date: Jan 1, 2004
Publisher: World Scientific
Shipping Weight: 1.00 pounds
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In this book, after discussing the fundamental problems of current science and other philosophical concepts, beginning with controversies between Heraclitus and Parmenides, Ilya Prigogine launches into a message of great hope: the future has not been determined. Contrary to globalization and the apparent contemporary mass culture society, individual behavior is beginning to increasingly become the key factor which governs the evolution of both the world and society as a whole. It is a message that challenges existing widespread views, implicitly or explicitly, through mass communication; moreover the importance of the individuals actions implies a reflection of each person on the responsibilities that each one assumes when taking or acting upon a decision. This responsibility is associated with the freedom of thought as well as a critical analysis of fashions, customs, preconceived ideas, and ideologies, externally imposed: exactly contrary to the ideas of those who wish us to be perfect consumers in a world dominated only by monetary wealth.
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