Three Worldviews of Modernity
Discussion
Zak Walsh:
"The Third Window, Robert Ulanowicz (2009) describes three worldviews that havecharacterized important shifts in modernity.
- The first was the mechanical worldview and wasinaugurated by thinkers like Descartes, Hume, Kant, Bacon, and especially Newton.
- The second was the evolutionary worldview and was inaugurated by Carnot and Darwin. Although the second is an improvement upon the first, it nevertheless discounts more recent discoveries in the importance of cooperation as a driving force between individuals, the theory of emergence in evolution, and the coproduction of nature-cultures.
- The third worldview, which I call the relational paradigm, is nascent. It is characterized by an ecological or process metaphysics andviews systems as causally open and dynamic, influenced by both bottom-up and top-down processes."