Faith and the normative foundation of systems science

Systems Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-35

  De Raadt, J D R ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Ethics; God; Multimodal systems; Normative order

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344670159     PISSN: 08949859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02557849     Document Type: Article

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