Towards Synergism makes a powerful case for understanding the universe as a relational, self- organizing, teleological system --and for the vitally important role of human civilization as a center for the creation of dynamic, organized complexity. Challenging the dominant neoliberal and postmodern fashions, the author argues that human creativity, not exchange, is the motive force for social progress, and that this creativity is best nurtured by a society which cultivates rational knowledge of the cosmic order and of the principles of value implicit within that order.