This survey of the history and development of science shows how science has grown to fill one's consciousness in the late 1990s to the point where every person feels him- or herself to be a scientist of some sort. The author argues that science has become the instrument for the callous disregard of man, beasts, plants, and the air we breathe. It has released untold greed for power.
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This survey of the history and development of science shows how science has grown to fill one's consciousness in the late 1990s to the point where every person feels him- or herself to be a scientist of some sort. The author argues that science has become the instrument for the callous disregard of man, beasts, plants, and the air we breathe. It has released untold greed for power.
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Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG., dustwrapper. 24x16cm, ix, 372 pp. Contents: A Call. Where Are We? ; Warning Voices; Whither? ; The Copernican Revolution; Galileo's Intervention; Doubt and Dualism; Newton's Triumph; Meaning in Question; Only in Cosmos; The Consequences of Liberating Science; The Abolution of the Absolute; Finding the Circle; The Mechanical Invades the Living; The Impact of Darwinism; Transhumanism; The Non-Man; From Abstract to Concrete; A Biologist Testifies; The Word is Man's; New Endavours; Both Mystic and Scientist; A Physicist Evaluates; Goethe: Poet-Scientist; The Enigma of the Thinking Mind; A Philosophy of Freedom; Quest for Meaning.
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372pp. A fine hardback in dustcover The author points out how science has vastly enabled humanity to gain its control of outer nature while at the same time has diminished inner vision and moral certainty. He argues that people need to wrest their sense of identity away from the cold, mechanistic, computerized world where they are merely another part of nature to be engineered and manipulated.
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372pp. NEW hardback in dustcover The author points out how science has vastly enabled humanity to gain its control of outer nature while at the same time has diminished inner vision and moral certainty. He argues that people need to wrest their sense of identity away from the cold, mechanistic, computerized world where they are merely another part of nature to be engineered and manipulated.
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