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of Physics (London: Flamingo, Harper-Collins Publishers, 3rd ed. 1991) is a holistic, system-based approach, extending to include important areas of contemporary life-machine, Psychology, Economics, Political science and Ecology as well as Physics. After discussing the five different spiritual traditions of the East, Capra finds a basic unity of the world view, which are very much akin and fundamental to modern physics. The awareness of the unity and mutual interrelation of all things and events, the experience of all phenomena in the world as manifestations of a basic oneness. All things are seen as interdependent and inseparable parts of this cosmic whole, as different manifestations of the same ultimate reality. (Fritz of Capra: The Tao of Physics P-142). The basic oneness of the universe is not only the central characteristic of the mystical experience but is also one of the most important revelations of modern physics. It becomes apparent at the atomic level and more at the sub-atomic levels. Quantum Theory has abolished the notion of fundamentally separated objects. It has come to see the universe as an interconnected web of physical and mental relations whose parts are only defined through their connections to the whole. From one-dimensional to multi-dimensional thought:
In the classical Greek thought, Reason is the sole dimension of cognitive faculty to distinguish what is true and what is false in so far as truth is primarily a condition of Being or Reality. For Socrates, epistemology is in itself ethics, and ethics is epistemology. Then comes the other dimension of thought i.e., experience. With this twodimensional thought, reason and experience, we construct two worldsreality and appearance, truth and untruth. This divided world finds it logic in the Platonic dialectic. The two-dimensioned style of thought is the inner form not only of dialectical logic but also of all philosophy, which comes to grip with reality. Formal logic intended universal validity for the laws of thought because logical abstraction is also sociological abstraction. Hence Aristotelian formal logic is sterile. Philosophical thought developed alongside and even outside this formal logic. Neither the School men nor the rationalism and empiricism of the early modem period had any reason to object to the mode of thought
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