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| Autor: | Warner Wick |
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| Rok vydání: | 1949 |
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| Zdroj: | Ethics. 59:257-270 |
| ISSN: | 1539-297X 0014-1704 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/290679 |
| Popis: | IT is a commonplace that we live in a time of crisis. We hear of a crisis in the control of technology and the sciences; another in social policy; still others in morality and in the arts, whose vigor and cultural significance are in doubt; and so on to a crisis in the consciousness that we have (or lack) of our destiny-whether it be subject to the circumstances of history, the laws of thermodynamics, or the judgment of God. It is equally a commonplace that, while all these crises are felt to be related, we do not discover their common root because we are preoccupied with specialties and technicalities. Philosophy, by tradition at least, might have been expected to produce some hints of a broad wisdom about high matters; but philosophers are no less professionalized than other people, and they often appear most concerned with developing techniques for making the trivial analytically precise or for ingeniously avoiding commitments about what is not trivial. But now we find a rather unusual number of books which both concern themselves with some version of the general crisis and can claim to be philosophical in the old sense of seeking insight into ultimate questions.' |
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