Unity of Knowledge

The pursuit of unity of knowledge all too often meant that one theory and/or discipline was viewed as central to human understanding. Such an approach naturally conflicts with the contemporary focus of interdisciplinarians and transdisciplinarians on integrating across diverse perspectives. This latter approach makes little sense if one perspective is judged universally superior. Moreover, Interdisciplinarians and transdisciplinarians tend today to focus their research on particular problems, rather than aspiring to a holistic view of everything. Nevertheless, some interdisciplinarians and transdisciplinarians aspire still to a looser form of unity of knowledge that involves appreciating the strengths and weaknesses of different theories and methods as these are applied to any set of causal relationships.