Chapter 6 Autopoiesis and Critical Social Systems Theory

Fuchs, Christian; Hofkirchner, Wolfgang

doi:10.1108/s1877-6361(2009)0000006007

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“…Thus, resilience would be achieved in a morally just manner. Essentially, this is the true meaning of Social Auropoiesis (Fuchs & Hofkirchner, 2009). Society reproduces and produces man as a social being, and man reproduces and produces society by socially coordinating human actions: a dialectic of social structures and human actors.…”

Section: Identification Of the Threats And Resilience Strategiesmentioning

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Ethical Decision Making in Emergent Emergencies under a Veil of Ignorance

2020

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In this paper we initially propose a scheme for the determination of threats due to the Covid19 pandemic, followed by appropriate response measures. In order to devise successful response actions, one should pay extreme care in identifying the actual threats posed and, as a matter of fact, prioritize them with respect to their severity on human life, societal risks, democratic operation of the institutions and the state and irreversible environmental impact.But would everyone be benefited the same by these response measures? There lies the danger to be unfair of even ignoring socially disadvantaged groups and, thus, increasing social inequality gaps. And the new equilibrium attained runs the danger of being less stable than the old one, exhibiting degraded emergent behavior and capabilities for self-organization. In this case we would have achieved exactly the opposite of what we wished for, a system of lower resilience to perturbations.Thus, we argue that the ethical element is the predominant factor that should determine all types of feedback responses and actions taken by decision-makers in all political, social, economic and environmental aspects during the process of returning to normality.Towards this purpose, a method of determining the morality of response measures is required. A variation of the ‘Veil of Ignorance’ provides such a method, as introduced in this paper. It asks the decision-makers to make choices about social or moral issues related to the feedback responses to the pandemic and assumes that they have enough information to know the consequences of their possible decisions for everyone but would not know which person they will be themselves, in the new equilibrium. We believe that the proposed ethical framework will result to just and fair to all response measures.

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Section: Identification Of the Threats And Resilience Strategiesmentioning

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Ethical Decision Making in Emergent Emergencies under a Veil of Ignorance

2020

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“…En consideraciones acerca de la ciencia, Luhmann (1997: 419-420) fue explícito en negar esta posibilidad, con un planteamiento que vincula la autopoiesis con la objetividad, entendida en el sentido más limitado de ausencia de valores. Tal vez por ello algunos autores que piensan la intervención sistémica llegan al punto de promover una revisión crítica de la autopoiesis (Fuchs y Hofkirchner, 2009).…”

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La Teoría de los Sistemas Complejos y la Teoría de los Sistemas Sociales en las controversias de la complejidad

Becerra

2019

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La irrupción de la complejidad en las décadas de 1970 y 1980 motivó un cierto diagnóstico de crisis de la ciencia y el conocimiento científico. Indagar el alcance de este diagnóstico es central para comprender el sentido que adquiere la complejidad en dos programas particulares: la Teoría de los Sistemas Complejos (TSC) de Rolando García, y la Teoría de los Sistemas Sociales (TSS) de Niklas Luhmann. Para aclarar este problema planteamos un contrapunto en torno a tres problemas particulares –el alcance de las explicaciones y las predicciones científicas, la interdisciplina, y el carácter social y transformador del conocimiento –, que atendemos junto a las características metateóricas y los supuestos epistemológicos de cada programa. Concluimos abogando por una interpretación de la TSC donde se observa una posición más moderada que la de la TSS en la controversia por la complejidad.

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“…The emancipatory commitment of CST denounces any distortions that act to prevent open and ‘free’ dialogue (Fuchs & Hofkirchner, ). While deploring any context that prevents discussion is laudable, clearly such a view carries Habermasian overtones with the uncritical assumption that a universally understood ideal state is achievable.…”

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Ecological Justice for Nature in Critical Systems Thinking

2018

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The authors of this paper provide a brief overview of the rights-based literature that has been used to produce mechanisms to acknowledge non-human agency in critical systems thinking (CST). With consideration of recent studies of plant cognition, we propose that by recasting CST's underlying commitments, we may produce new ontologies and new ways of working with the embedded stakeholders of socioecological systems. While the discursive shifts are simple, to recast 'social awareness' as 'socioecological awareness' and 'human emancipation' to 'emancipation', these changes open up the boundaries, scope and relevance of practice. We see this as a second turn and the next important movement in CST.

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Chapter 6 Autopoiesis and Critical Social Systems Theory

Cited by 17 publications

References 6 publications

Ethical Decision Making in Emergent Emergencies under a Veil of Ignorance

Ethical Decision Making in Emergent Emergencies under a Veil of Ignorance

La Teoría de los Sistemas Complejos y la Teoría de los Sistemas Sociales en las controversias de la complejidad

Ecological Justice for Nature in Critical Systems Thinking

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