Filozofska istraživanja, Vol. 31 No. 3, 2011.
Review article
Holons and holarchies
Vanja Borš
; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
According to the theory of holons reality does not only consist of parts or wholes, but also from inter-permeating wholes and parts, that is, holons; which are found within material and ideological framework of reality. Given that fully isolated and uninteractive entities cannot exist, holons associate, in this way forming a community of holons, that is, holarchies. Within the holarchy special significance have holons that contains a large number of connections to other holons. Such holons are called hubs, thus we can distinguish first-order hubs and second-order hubs. In the end, if one holon neglects his communion, for the purpose of overdomination over the rest of the holarchy, then we talk about unnatural (pathological, dominator) hierarchies, but if one holon neglects his agency, which leads him to simply fuse with the rest of the holarchy, then we talk about unnatural (pathological, dominator) heterarchies.
Keywords
holon; holarchy; first-order hubs; second-order hubs; unnatural (pathological, dominator) hierarchy; unnatural (pathological, dominator) heterarchy
Hrčak ID:
75390
URI
Publication date:
22.11.2011.
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