Complex thought (Edgar Morin)

The complex thought is not theoretical but paradigmatic because it concerns the method of knowledge. The complex thought is a reaction against the world of classical science and against the dominant organization of knowledge which is based on the separation, on the dispersion and on the non-dialogue of the disciplines; consequently, the organization of knowledge is unable to understand the global and fundamental problems. The complex thought is focused on a dialogical paradigm that allows simultaneously to integrate and to distinguish ideas. The complex thought is based on awareness of the limits of knowledge and therefore on a knowledge that moves between coherence and contradiction, between order and disorder, between certainty and uncertainty.