Ideas on System Thinking and Acting: Basic Issues, Aporetic Constructs and Application of the Metanoia Principle

Abstract

Straightforward thinking in a matter of one-way cause-and-effect approaches has proven to be a valuable concept for hundreds of years especially in Western Democracies, where the cultural embeddedness provided fertile soil. However this methodology has also proven to be a misconception when addressing certain “complex” issues. Leaving Aristotelian logic aside and introducing an aporetic view in this “primary paradigm of reality perception” lead to a whole new set of problem-solving methodologies.This paper is a short version of one part in a series dealing with System Thinking and Acting and the connections with and differences to the application of daoistic thinking models.