Rolf Sattler FLS FRSC (born March 8, 1936) is a Canadian plant morphologist, biologist, philosopher, and educator.
[3][4] Besides Biophilosophy (1986), his philosophical contributions include articles on complementarity (perspectivism), process philosophy, the mandala principle, and the convergence of science and spirituality.
As a postdoctoral fellow, he spent a year with Ludwig von Bertalanffy, one of the founders of general systems theory, at the University of Alberta in Canada.
For 33 years, he was first assistant, then associate, and finally full professor in the departments of botany and biology of McGill University in Montreal.
As a visiting professor at the University of Berlin in Germany he taught plant morphology and the philosophy of biology.
He is also interested in developing a process language in which the verb, not the noun or pronoun, plays the primary role.
Besides hierarchy (holarchy), he underlines the importance of complementary perspectives such as holism as undivided wholeness, Yin-Yang, continuum and network views.
[18] Finally, he also emphasizes that beyond all perspectives is the unnamable source, emptiness (in the Buddhist sense), mystery, which is of ultimate importance for healing and total Being.
from the Open International University at Colombo, Sri Lanka for his contributions to complementary alternative medicine.