Blindness and Seeing in Systems Epistemology: Alfred Locker’s Trans-Classical Systems Theory Markus Locker 1 Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016 Abstract Appreciating the undeniable value of General Systems Theory (GST), Alfred Locker considers the question whether or not GST is able to go beyond a mere scientific point of view. Locker’s own systems theoretical approach, Trans-Classical Systems The- ory, proposes not only to include usual observations into a systems view, but likewise their theoretical presuppositions. Locker hereby creates two levels of observation; an ortho- and a meta-level, where otherwise incommensurable viewpoints are united into whole. In this way, Locker is able to articulate a holistic systems theory of seeming opposites, like, for example, creation and evolution. Keywords System Á Observer Á Systems theory Á System allology Á Ganzheit 1 Preface Alfred Locker’s 1 (1922–2005) lifework on systems theory was deeply influenced by his conviction that general systems theory (GST) arguably failed to overcome the problem of reductionism due to adhering to a single mode of observation and description (Locker 2005a, b, 2006a, b, c; Jung 2005; Glanville 2006; Pichler 2005). In due course, the development of his own version of systems theory (called trans-classical systems theory) must be understood in relation to his critical stance towards mainstream systems theory and This paper is continuation and deepening of Locker (2006a, b, c). & Markus Locker mlocker@ateneo.edu 1 Ateneo de Manila University, Manila, Philippines 1 The late Alfred Locker held the position of Prof. for Theoretical Physics at the Technological University of Vienna. 123 Found Sci DOI 10.1007/s10699-016-9502-y