... well as doubts about the efficiency of the contemporary, large-scale application of scientific rationality as the exclusive 'solution' to this crisis are, amongst others the motivations for this study. Part I analyses the historical-philosophical developments and conditions of a current way of Western thinking and living, their immanent dynamics and their relation to the present ecological crisis. This ... heritage of William Ockham and Cusanus and confirms Cusanus' foundation of sciences, which is elaborated into an analytical-synthetic epistemological model to approach reality. Compari...

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