unfortunately never got to study the general semantics approach On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Karl Robillard <[email protected]>wrote:
On Saturday, January 22, 2011 12:18:39 am Michel Bauwens wrote:
I recently discovered the Human Givens approach of Joe Griffen and MIndsfield college, http://vimeo.com/754995. I see this as the first clear recognition of the relational embeddedness of the human, in a social,ecological and socio-political framework.
This sounds similar to Alfred Korzybski's general semantics, in which structural relationships are a central theme. Korzybski's book 'Science and Sanity' is on the Zeitgeist recommended reading list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski http://esgs.free.fr/uk/art/sands.htm
-Karl
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