In human thermodynamics, Philip J. Allott (c.1935-) an English international lawyer and philosopher, focusing on global constitutional theory, noted for []
Overview
In 1990, Allott, in his Eunomia: New Order for a New World, defined constitution, and it seems a Newtonian government model, in loose or connotative physical science terms, as: [1]
“The generic principles of a constitution are intended to perform a similar explanatory function to that of general hypothetical principles of the natural sciences—the principles of Newtonian mechanics, thermodynamics, relativity, quantum mechanics, genetics.”
In 2008, Allott, in his Invisible Power 2: a Metaphysical Adventure Story, gave what seems to be a Freudian thermodynamics based, take on two of the so-called three laws of human thermodynamics as follows: [2]
“The second law of human thermodynamics suggests that human beings with very low energy/desire/libido levels are liable to lead a quiet life, but are also liable to depersonalize and dematerialize, prematurely into the formless void. The third law of human thermodynamics [suggests that] those who divert high levels of energy/desire/libido in creative and constructive directions may lead a less entropic life, but will have to learn to live with the ever-present threat of serial frustration and haunting despair.”
In another passage of dialog, Allott writes:
“But most people don’t actually will anything,” Edmund said. “They just do things as slaves of desire. They live in a sort of entropic void. Things just happen. It takes a special effort of mind not to do something. That’s all our famous moral freedom actually is—the freedom not to do something, if we summon up the effort not to do it.”
Allott, it seems, culled his thermodynamics learning from the 1971 Paul Glansdorff and Ilya Prigogine, along with possibly some of the work of Erich Jantsch, with the aim or intention to open a discourse on reconstituting the international order in the mind of all people concerned, in the framework of evolution and sustainability. [3]
Education
Allott worked as an official in the British Foreign Office during the 1960s and 1970s, he held such varied offices as legal adviser to the British Military Government in Berlin, legal counselor to the British representative to the European Community, and adviser and representative to the United Nations Law of the Sea Conference, function during these years as a diplomat and a scholar. Currently, Allott is professor emeritus of international public law, at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
References
1. Allott, Philip. (1990). Eunomia: New Order for a New World (pg. 169). Oxford University Press.
2. Allott, Philip. (2008). Invisible Power 2: A Metaphysical Adventure Story (thermodynamics, pg. 148; entropic, pgs. 23, 148). Xlibris.
3. (a) Glandsdorff, Paul and Prigogine, Ilya. (1971). Thermodynamic Theory of Structure, Stability and Fluctuations. Wiley-Interscience.
(b) Ginther, Konrad, Denters, Erik, and de Waart, P.J.I.M. (1995). Sustainable Development and Good Governance (pg. 161). M. Nijhoff.
External links
● Philip Allott (faculty) – Trinity College Cambridge.
● Allott, Philip – WorldCat Identities.
