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During the period of history just preceding our epoch, much ingenuity was expanded on divising a means of checks and balances whereby the often opposing interests of the individual and society could be continuously reconciled. This mode of reconciliation is now under attack by doctrines which define the individual entirely in terms of its position within the collective. As a result, we are witnessing a crisis in the dialectic between the individual and the collective identities of man.
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J. T. Fraser, Time as Conflict: a Scientific and Humanistic Study (Basel: Birkhauser Verlag and Brookfield, Vt.: Renouf U.S.A., 1978). Also Of Time, Passion, and Knowledge (New York: Braziller, 1975).
Cf. the paper by Professor Hans Kalmus in this volume.
“Complexity, as here understood, is not a measure of the number of component units of a system, but of the number of ways in which the members of that system are, or may be, interconnected.” Fraser (1978), op. cit. p. 113
I am using the figures of Observer and Agent as they are employed in attribution theory. Their functions are not to be confused with the separation of theoretical and practical knowledge as suggested by Kant.
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Fraser, J.T. (1978). The Individual and Society. In: Fraser, J.T., Lawrence, N., Park, D.A. (eds) The Study of Time III. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6287-9_19
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