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Theoretical and Applied Economics
No. 11 / 2011 (564)

The Gnoseological Crisis

„We may find ourselves in a system-crisis exactly because the founding vision of the modern context, the structuring of civilization is being affected.”


It is not hard to realize the fact that today's crisis flows from economic relevance towards other territories, including the one of knowledge. The most peculiar aspect of contagion is related to the model of knowledge, its very intellectual fundaments, time and causality. This is the sign that we may face a system-crisis exactly because the founding vision of the modern context, the structuring of civilization is being affected.

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