Humanity at the crossroads : technological progress, spiritual evolution, and the dawn of the nuclear age /

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<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">Humanity at the Crossroads attempts to answer questions regarding the effect of technological progress on our lives. This book concludes that the very technology which threatens to destroy us, not merely its more favorable offshoots, is it...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hallett, Garth J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Temas:
Philosophy.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Free will and determinism > Philosophy.
Social sciences.
Science > Technology.
Philosophie.
Sciences sociales > Philosophie.
Libre arbitre et déterminisme > Philosophie.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences > Technologie.
philosophy.
social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Old Endings and New Beginnings; 1 The Turning Point; 2 The Hinge of Paradox; 3 Beyond the Turning Point; 4 Out of Division and Darkness; 5 Into Unity and Light; 6 The New World on the Horizon; 7 The Law of the Jungle and the Return to Eden; 8 How We Perceive the World; 9 When the Past Resists the Future; 10 Projections and Conclusions; II: Challenges along the Way; 11 Problems of Perception and the Transfer of Knowledge; 12 The Problem of Selfish Individualism; 13 The Problem of Accelerating Change; 14 Problems with the Commercial Culture
  • 15 The Problem of the Larger Context16 The Issue of Collective Goods and "Bads"; 17 The Problem of Basic Need; 18 The Problem of Malignant Nationalism; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index

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