this page is about
and maybe neo Pragmatics  (see Herbert Stachowiak) and how Ethics and Values should be part of it:
QUERGEIST
Jonas / Stachowiak

We feel that beside a General Systems Theory (GST) which evolved around Bertalanffy in the 50ies, a general model theory (GMT) has its merits.
Being aware that the sixties and seventies were an era of genral theories, like for planning, see here Doxiadies and the work of Ozbhhan and Warfield, we
We also believe that we should look into signs and representations, as without being aware of the elements how can we draw the picture and are aware of teh frames and settings?

Re:
Models, pls visit:  (or mind models)
http://www.cafeweltgeist.org/ewoc_slideshows/benking/sld024.htm
http://www.cafeweltgeist.org/ewoc_slideshows/benking/sld023.htm

Systems:
http://www.cafeweltgeist.org/ewoc_slideshows/benking/sld025.htm
maybe also see my concerns / entries re my designs:
http://benking.de/systems/encyclopedia/
http://benking.de/systems/encyclopedia/encyclopedia-entries-benking.htm

and the more basic issue of
terms, signs, images, schemas,...:

this is only a strater and teaser: ranging from Cusanus to Peirce and Warburg ...
http://www.cafeweltgeist.org/ewoc_slideshows/benking/sld009.htm


please go to http://benking.de/systems/ for a collection of pieces to the matter....