ABSTRACT
Perhaps one of the most damaging weaknesses of the Western intellectual tradition has been the fragmentation of our perception and under standing of the world around us. Ever more specialised fields of intellectual endeavour have proliferated with amazing ease and speed, and although attempts have been made to pull them together through both interdisciplinary and problem oriented enquiries, many of these attempts have achieved only very partial success. As a result, at a time when the emerging complexities and interdependencies of the modern world place an ever greater premium on the need for a wider appreciation, our ability to provide this seems to be ever more distant
