The Many-Splendored Society: 4: The Pursuit of Knowledge: Volume 4 - Brossura

Zetterberg, Hans L

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1475086741 ISBN 13: 9781475086744

Casa editrice: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Riassunto

This is a book about the societal realm of science. The main division of social reality is not class, as Karl Marx thought, but societal realms. They are six in number: science, art, economy, religion, polity, and morality. They are the homes of knowledge, beauty, wealth, sacredness, order, and virtue, all being cardinal values of humanity. This book deals with the community of people of knowledge and their passion for discovery and their relations to other societal realms. We get a lesson teling how a societal realm is created. As a human enterprise, science emerged in collaboration and competition with religion. Two hundred years ago, the universities picked their model from the guild economy in Germany, and in time, from the market economy of the United States. Today, science is independent and global, more so than any other societal realm. The enormous success of medicine and engineering still has a big base at universities. However, their recent growth has its momentum in applications. Increasingly, current research takes place outside the universities in the context of applications. We take time to study the stream of technical innovations and find that it consists mostly of new combinations of old innovations. A full acceptance of innovations in society is found in rather shorts periods of history, marked by values of materialism and pragmatism.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1475086741
• ISBN 13: 9781475086744
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 260
• Disegnatore: Ander Martin