CYBERNETICS OF SOCIETY: "Cybernetics and governance are quintessentially teleological.
As ontology (asking, What is?) called forth epistemology (asking, How do we know what is?), so these two coevolved, over time, to call forth the teleological question — ultimately the touchstone of human striving and the greatest philosophical question of any time and all times — So what?
What should I do with my ontology and epistemology this morning? How shall we live our lives? How can humankind best balance liberty and justice, here and now? How can our emergent planetary civilization find and pursue the path of virtue? In short, how can wisdom, sophia, put Logos — knowledge of the naturally found — into best service to the culturally made, the Nomos: knowledge, wisdom, understanding, and know-how focused on ordaining and establishing 'quality' governance that will sustain Regenerative Intelligence Still Evolving (RISE)?
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The teleological quest for 'good government' was the preoccupation of the ancient Sophists, of whom (despite Plato's protestations) Socrates was the greatest. As cybernetics is quintessentially teleological, so law must advance as a quintessentially cybernetic 'calling' — transcending science as science transcends logic."
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