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A New Enlightenment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Adriano A. Buzzati-Traverso

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Perhaps modern man's major mistake was that of considering science as the quintessence of reason and of believing, accordingly, that scientific progress is synonymous with human progress.

Type
Notes and Reviews
Information
Diogenes , Volume 23 , Issue 91 , January 1975 , pp. 106 - 127
Copyright
Copyright © 1975 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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12 Public Knowledge, op. cit.

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19 Op. cit.

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