Liberal thinking in systems theory?
What kind of ideology does systems theory follow? Is there an ideology to be identified in the realm of the systems theory or is the theory exempt from any kind of “ideology”?
These will be our leading questions which are to be answered in this article. As always we need a definition of liberalism to ensure a, more or less, equal access to the topic we want to deal with.
Definition problems
First of all, we are in need of a closer frame for answering our question. What is it we want to call liberalism? Obviously, liberalism can be of a political or non- political kind. We need to settle the question what kind of liberalism we want to refer to.
In our opinion, to cut a long story short, the question, whether systems theory is following a political liberalism, or not, is not qualified to gain much attention. There does not seem to be any leads of a politically motivated liberal thinking in systems theory. So we are not going to follow this question up. At least any attempt to show this appears volitional and artificial – in sum, not reasonable in our view.