El desarrollo de un pensamiento pluridimensional / The development of a thought pluridimensional

Abstract

This text provides a brief characterisation of the current context of a world that demands more global and more integrated forms of comprehension in order to be able to face new challenges. It considers that the natural sciences, in part, contributed to mark a rupture within the modern ideal of a Cartesian-positivist science, and allowed for the first time the introduction of complex notions of chaos and of self-organization, which paved the way to speaking about the complex method of investigation which allows the understanding of the knowledge of knowing. It reflects on the possibility of considering an anti/multi/contrary-method for finding a multidimen-sional research strategy. It questions the notion of method in light of the different orientations which can be demonstrated from a Cartesian perspective (rigid and unilateral definition of a dis-criminatory approach) and on a complex focus (this implies the idea of a flexible and adaptive model of a changing horizon which can be reached from different paths). It clarifies that complexity is neither the abandonment of scientific ambition nor an invitation for intellectual procrastination, since complex thinking does not suppose the abandonment of this method.