CHURCHMAN, HEIDEGGER, AND PHENOMENOLOGY: A BASIS FOR A HEIDEGGERIAN INQUIRING SYSTEM

摘要

C. West Churchman had five (5) philosophical Organizational Inquirers, which he viewed through the lens of Systems Theory: Leibniz, Locke, Kant, Hegel and Singer. In two seminal papers, (Courtney, Croasdell and Paradice, 1998), (Courtney, 2001), we find summaries of each philosopher's approach grounded in Systems Theory and perspective highlighted philosophically now crystallized as an Inquiring Organization. This paper extends the Table of Inquiring Organizational Characteristics (Courtney, Table 1, p 25, 2001) to its sixth dimension: a Heideggerian Inquiring System. The theme of the Heideggerian System as explicated in this paper is Ethical Enlightenment. The paper will draw upon the work of Michael Polanyi, and briefly upon Wolfgang Goethe and Rudolph Steiner as background for what constitutes Ethical Enlightenment in order to provide a basis for a Phenomenological (rather than a Systems Theory) grounding for a Heideggerian Inquiring System. 1