Guoping Hua

Toward a General Theory of Adaptive Civilization: A System Logic Framework for Civilizational Risk, Resilience, and Long-Term Survival

The first seven papers in the System Logic series established systemic adequacy, boundary and time, local optimization and systemic failure, feedback and systemic correction, the Systemic Impact Ledger, the System Logic of social cooperation from private good to public good, and...

From Private Good to Public Good: The System Logic of Social Cooperation—A System Logic Framework for Cooperation, Institutional Alignment, and Civilizational Evolution

The first five papers in the System Logic series established systemic adequacy, boundary and time, local optimization and systemic failure, feedback and systemic correction, and the Systemic Impact Ledger as core tools for evaluating judgments and actions in open systems. Togethe...

The Rational Public-Regarding Personality: A Theory of Community-Oriented Agency Beyond Egoism and Self-Sacrifice—From Dynamic Coordination of Human Functioning to the Formation of the Community Subject

The long-term viability of a community depends not only on institutional design but also on the kinds of persons who enter and sustain its institutions. An actor concerned only with immediate personal gain may pursue objectives through deception, predation, free riding, or cost e...

Civilizational Differences and the Isomorphism of Human Nature: A Theoretical Response to the Clash of Civilizations

After the end of the Cold War, Samuel Huntington's clash-of-civilizations thesis asserted that civilizational differences would become the principal source of world conflict and that cultural identity would replace ideology as the basic dividing line of international politics. Th...

The Systemic Impact Ledger: A Framework for Evaluating Costs and Benefits Across Systems—A Multi-Dimensional Model of Cross-System Evaluation, Time Horizons, and Cost Externalization

The first four papers in the System Logic series established systemic adequacy, boundary and time, local optimization and systemic failure, and feedback and systemic correction as core concepts for evaluating judgments and actions in open systems. Together, they raise a central q...

Mission-Oriented Talent and Cause-Oriented Organizations: The Capacity Logic of Community Building

The realization of a Community with a Shared Future for Humanity depends not only on the normative legitimacy of the idea and the rational design of institutions, but also on mission-oriented talent and cause-oriented organizations capable of continuously translating the idea int...

Plurality Is Not the End Point: From Civilizational Coexistence to Civilizational Integration—Non-Coercive Integration, Cultural Evolution, and the Formation of a Shared Civilizational Layer

Cultural diversity is a basic reality of human civilization and an important source of knowledge, meaning, identity, and creativity. Yet acknowledging civilizational plurality does not answer a further question: must different civilizations remain permanently parallel, or can lon...

Local Optimization and Systemic Failure: An Analytical Framework of Temporal, Boundary, Level, and Feedback Mismatches

The relationship between local optimization and systemic failure is one of the most explanatory problems in System Logic. An action, an organization, or a policy may achieve optimality within its local system while producing systemic failure at broader spatial or temporal scales....