Part 3.: Leslie A. White on «Aufheben» ‘Meta-Monad-ic’ Dialectics [but using different nomenclature].

Part 3.:  Leslie A. White on «Aufheben» ‘Meta-Monad-ic’ Dialectics

[but using different nomenclature].

Dear Reader,

In his celebrated 1959 book entitled The Evolution of Culture:  The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome, Leslie A. White spells out a universal principle -- not just a human-social developmental principle -- of [meta-]evolution, and of ‘ontology self-expansion’, which is essentially the same as the universal principle that is key to the interpretation and solution of so many of the applied dialectical ‘meta-equations’ formulated via the Seldonian ‘First Arithmetic for Dialectics’, and via its dialectical algebra, per the Seldonian ‘Algorithmic-Heuristic Universal Dialectical Method’. 

The Seldonian term for this principle of ‘meta-evolution’ is ‘«aufheben» meta-unit-ization dialectic.’  Its ‘‘‘vertical’’’ aspect is the systematic presentation of a co-extant, co-present, or synchronic ‘qualo-fractal content-structure’, which is an ‘«aufheben» multi-meta-monad-ic, multi-meta-ontic cumulum.’ 

Leslie A. White addresses this universal principle using a nomenclature of “systems” and of the “integration” of their “segments”.  White also cites the following example [on pp. 148-149] --

“[F.E.D.:  E.g., Christian, Catholic and some Protestant] Ecclesiastical organization also offers an interesting and instructive example of integration through segmentation.”

“On the lowest stratum [F.E.D.:  what we call the «arché» “stratum”] we have congregations, unless one distinguishes segments within this grouping [F.E.D.:  Note White’s positing here, in passing, of the ‘sub-principle’ of the ‘potential relativity’ and ‘optionality’ of the modeler’s choice of «arché»’.].”

“Congregations are [F.E.D.:  already] organized into parishes, and these into bishoprics, archbishoprics, and so on up to the Church[es], which [F.E.D.:  «aufheben»-]contain(s) them all.” [color and underline emphases added by F.E.D.].

As we have noted here in earlier blog-entries, a ‘dialectical cumulum’ is not, in general, a “hierarchy”.  But here, once again, we see that there may be special cases of human-social, e.g., ‘class-social’, ‘multi-meta-monadic cumula’, within which ‘‘‘horizontal’’’ interactions are suppressed, and within which egalitarian tendencies are forcibly minimized, which are, indeed, authoritarian, dictatorial, perverted and pathological -- sado-masochistic -- human-social hierarchies.

FYI:  Much of the work of Karl Seldon, and of his collaborators, including work by “yours truly”, is available for your free-of-charge download via --

www.dialectics.info

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.],

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison