Complex thinking and its contribution to unthinking the hierarchies between the social and exact sciences

Abstract

Through Edgar Morin's proposal of complex thought, a critique of the current hierarchy between social and exact sciences will be made. Likewise, we will briefly analyze how this situation arose historically, and we will lean on Wallerstein's (1991) proposal to think critically of the construction of the differences in the sciences mentioned above. Although thought is a cognitive operation, its genesis is correlated to material life and it is energized by it. Now, to speak of complex thought is to accept a social construction of reality in which the subject disappears from the center of the universe as the creator of everything, forgetting its genesis in nature to which it now rationally submits.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3831349

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