HOW CAN WE ENTER IN DIALOGUE? TRANSDISCIPLINARY METHODOLOGY OF THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN PEOPLE, CULTURES, AND SPIRITUALITIES
HOW CAN WE ENTER IN DIALOGUE? TRANSDISCIPLINARY METHODOLOGY OF THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN PEOPLE, CULTURES, AND SPIRITUALITIES

Summary/Abstract: When two people try to communicate there is inevitably a confrontation: a represen-tation against a representation, subconscious against subconscious. As this confrontation is subconscious, it often degenerates into conflict. A new model of civilization is neces-sary, the keystone is dialogue between human beings, nations, cultures and religions for the survival of humanity. In forming a new model of civilization a methodology of transdisciplinarity can be helpful. In 1985 I proposed the inclusion in the word “trans-disciplinarity,” introduced by Jean Piaget in 1972, the meaning “beyond disciplines,” and I developed this idea over the years. Interdisciplinarity has a different goal than multidisciplinarity. The latter concerns a transfer of methods from one discipline to another, whereas the former overflows disciplines, but its goal still remains within the framework of disciplinary research. Interdisciplinarity has even the capacity of generat-ing new disciplines.

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