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Fritjof Capra ist ein österreichisch-amerikanischer Physiker, Systemtheoretiker, Philosoph, Managementtrainer und Autor. Er versucht, mit einem ganzheitlich-systemischen Ansatz eine Verbindung zwischen östlicher Mystik und moderner Physik herzustellen und setzt sich für eine nachhaltige ökologische Lebensweise in einer globalen Zivilgesellschaft ein. Mitte der 1970er bis in die 1980er Jahre galt er als einer der Hauptvertreter der esoterischen „New-Age-Bewegung“, ein Begriff, der später nicht mehr als Selbstbezeichnung verwandt wurde, sondern eine abwertende Bedeutung erhielt. Capra distanzierte sich dementsprechend von der Bewegung.

Er ist Gründungsdirektor des Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, Kalifornien, und unterrichtet am Schumacher College, einem internationalen Zentrum für ökologische Studien in England. Er lebt in Berkeley in Kalifornien. Wikipedia  

✵ 1. Februar 1939
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“The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. The verbal interpretation, on the other hand – i. e., the metaphysics of quantum theory – is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.”

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Fritjof Capra buch The Tao of Physics

Quelle: The Tao of Physics (1975), Ch. 10, The Unity of All Things, p. 132.

“A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.”

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Fritjof Capra buch The Tao of Physics

Quelle: The Tao of Physics (1975), Ch. 2, Knowing and Seeing, p. 36.

“Partnership—the tendency to associate, establish links, live inside one another, and cooperate—is one of the hallmarks of life.”

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Epilogue: Ecological Literacy
The Web of Life (1996)

“The Buddhist doctrine of impermanence includes the notion that there is no self… It holds that the idea of a separate, individual self is an illusion, just another form of maya, an intellectual concept that has no reality. To cling to this idea of a separate self leads to the same pain and suffering (duhkha) as the adherence to any other fixed category of thought.”

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Quelle: The Web of Life (1996), Ch.12 Knowing that We Know

“In biology the Cartesian view of living organisms as machines, constructed from separate parts, still provides the dominant conceptual framework. Although Descartes' simple mechanistic biology could not be carried very far and had to be modified considerably during the subsequent three hundred years, the belief that all aspects of living organisms can be understood by reducing them to their smallest constituents, and by studying the mechanisms through which these interact, lies at the very basis of most contemporary biological thinking. This passage from a current textbook on modern biology is a clear expression of the reductionist credo: 'One of the acid tests of understanding an object is the ability to put it together from its component parts. Ultimately, molecular biologists will attempt to subject their understanding of cell structure and function to this sort of test by trying to synthesize a cell.”

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Fritjof Capra buch The Turning Point

Quelle: The Turning Point (1982), Ch. 4. The Mechanistic View of Life.

“In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both orga­nismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend that saw itself as a protest movement against the increasing fragmentation and alienation of human nature. The entire Weimar culture was characterized by an antimechanistic outlook, a "hunger for wholeness". Organismic biology, Gestalt psychology, ecology, and, later on, general systems theory all grew out of this holistic zeitgeist.”

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Quelle: The Web of Life (1996), p. 32.

“p. 22 as cited in: Patrick Fitzgerald et al. (1995) Managing sustainable development in South Africa.”

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Quelle: Uncommon Wisdom (1988), p. 302.

“Understanding ecological interdependence means understanding relationships. It requires the shifts of perception that are characteristic of systems thinking—from the parts to the whole, from objects to relationships, from contents to patterns. …Nourishing the community means nourishing those relationships.”

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Epilogue: Ecological Literacy
The Web of Life (1996)

“The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman, the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman, the reality within.”

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Fritjof Capra buch The Tao of Physics

Epilogue, p. 305.
The Tao of Physics (1975)

“With the subsequent strong support from cybernetics, the concepts of systems thinking and systems theory became integral parts of the established scientific language, and led to numerous new methodologies and applications -- systems engineering, systems analysis, systems dynamics, and so on.”

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Quelle: The Web of Life (1996), p. 46.

“The ideas set forth by organismic biologists during the first half of the twentieth century helped to give birth to a new way of thinking — "systems thinking" — in terms of connectedness, relationships, context. According to the systems view, the essential properties of an organism, or living system, are properties of the whole, which none of the parts have. They arise from the interactions and relationships among the parts. These properties are destroyed when the system is dissected, either physically or theoretically, into isolated elements. Although we can discern individual parts in any system, these parts are not isolated, and the nature of the whole is always different from the mere sum of its parts. The systems view of life is illustrated beautifully and abundantly in the writings of Paul Weiss, who brought systems concepts to the life sciences from his earlier studies of engineering and spent his whole life exploring and advocating a full organismic conception of biology.”

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Quelle: The Web of Life (1996), p. 29.

“In 1929, Heisenberg spent some time in India as the guest of the celebrated Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, with whom he had long conversations about science and Indian philosophy. This introduction to Indian thought brought Heisenberg great comfort, he told me. He began to see that the recognition of relativity, interconnectedness, and impermanence as fundamental aspects of physical reality, which had been so difficult for himself and his fellow physicists, was the very basis of the Indian spiritual traditions. “After these conversations with Tagore,” he said, “some of the ideas that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense. That was a great help for me.””

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Fritjof Capra, Uncommon Wisdom, 1988, p.43
Uncommon Wisdom (1988)

“The term "paradigm," from the Greek paradeigma ("pattern"), was used by Kuhn to denote a conceptual framework shared by a community of scientists and providing them with model problems and solutions”

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Quelle: Uncommon Wisdom (1988), p. 22.

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