Post by ~¤LilacSky¤~ on Jul 21, 2005 1:26:43 GMT -5
interesting read....
Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man
by Bryan Appleyard, 283pp. Picador, 1992
SOME YEARS AGO the poet Ted Hughes expressed his dislike of science in characteristically trenchant terms:
Scientific objectivity has its own morality ... and this is the prevailing morality of our time. It is a morality utterly devoid of any awareness of the requirements of the inner world. It is contemptuous of the ‘human element’. This is its purity and its strength. The prevailing philosophies of our time subscribe to this contempt with a nearly religious fanaticism, just as science itself does.
Bryan Appleyard might well have used these words as the epigraph to his new book, for they express its theme forcefully and succinctly. Appleyard himself is even more succinct and only a little less forceful. ‘Science is effective,’ he writes, ‘but what does it tell us about ourselves and how we must live? The brief answer to this is: nothing.’
www.richardwebster.net/scienceandthesoul.html
Understanding the Present: Science and the Soul of Modern Man
by Bryan Appleyard, 283pp. Picador, 1992
SOME YEARS AGO the poet Ted Hughes expressed his dislike of science in characteristically trenchant terms:
Scientific objectivity has its own morality ... and this is the prevailing morality of our time. It is a morality utterly devoid of any awareness of the requirements of the inner world. It is contemptuous of the ‘human element’. This is its purity and its strength. The prevailing philosophies of our time subscribe to this contempt with a nearly religious fanaticism, just as science itself does.
Bryan Appleyard might well have used these words as the epigraph to his new book, for they express its theme forcefully and succinctly. Appleyard himself is even more succinct and only a little less forceful. ‘Science is effective,’ he writes, ‘but what does it tell us about ourselves and how we must live? The brief answer to this is: nothing.’
www.richardwebster.net/scienceandthesoul.html