Transdisciplinarity and autopoietical systems theory: interesting convergences for juridical observation of complexity

Abstract

This article aims to address convergences between the autopoietic systems theory and the transdisciplinary theory. Research problem: under what conditions can one affirm the existence of a theoretical convergence between Autopoietic Systems Theory (Luhmann) and transdisciplinarity (Nicolescu)? Hypothesis: even being theories studied in quite different areas, there are several theoretical confluences between transdisciplinarity and theory of autopoietic systems, since both authors listed here transposed their study fields, penetrating the reasoning of social science and logic to expose quite convergent thinking. Specific objectives: 1) to expose viewable convergences between the theory of autopoietic systems and theories about transdisciplinarity; 2) to analyze the importance of the logic of the third included to the theory of autopoietic systems, indicating the great approach to the transdisciplinarity. From the confirmation of the hypothesis, we can understand that actual complex situations requires an understanding, by Law, of the complexity of the matter, being that legalism and statalism do not give enough answers for this kind of problematic – which necessarily implies the turn towards transdisciplinary understandings.