Against the innocence of the concept
a call for the civilization of ideas
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Concept, Complexity, Edgar Morin, GRECOMAbstract
Although it is a very useful tool and widely used by the sciences, the formulation of a concept is not free from political, social and epistemological misrepresentations. Precisely for this reason, it cannot be treated as something trivial or sufficiently consolidated not to be questioned, because once it is treated as something untouchable, the concept can become a means by which scientists and opinion formers close themselves off in corporate circles that distance them from the general public and blind them to the self-deceptions produced by scientific practice itself. Removed from the general public, they don't participate in its life. By not participating, they expose people to the traps of denialism and fundamentalism. With this in mind, this article was conceived as an announcement of the limitations surrounding the act of conceptualizing and a reminder that our scientific practices will always fall short of reality, based on Edgar Morin's Complex Thought. The aim of the work is to reaffirm the importance of reconnecting knowledge and provoking debates in the various areas of knowledge about their time-honored practices and the scientific field, given that one discipline alone is not enough to say everything about what it is looking at. To demonstrate this, the work makes use of a qualitative and bibliographical reflection on the theoretical references that underpin Complex Thinking, describing details of experiences of the Complexity Studies Group (GRECOM), linked to the Postgraduate Program in Education at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), so that these experiences are treated as concrete examples of what is dealt with bibliographically.
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