The Crisis of Modern Science
With both philosophy and religion in such problematic condition, it was science alone that seemed to rescue the modern mind from pervasive uncertainty. Science achieved a golden age in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with extraordinary advances in all its major branches, with widespread institutional and academic organization of research, and with practical applications rapidly proliferating on the basis of a systematic linkage of science with technology. The optimism of the age was directly tied to confidence in science and in its powers to improve indefinitely the state of human knowledge, health, and general welfare.
Religion and metaphysics continued their long, slow decline, but science’s ongoing—indeed, accelerating—progress could not be d... (查看原文)
作者: 塔纳斯 副标题: 西方思想的激情 原作名: The PASSION of the WESTERN MIND isbn: 7806819770 书名: 西方思想史 页数: 605 译者:吴象婴, 晏可佳, 张广勇 定价: 88.00元 出版社: 上海社会科学院出版社 出版年: 2007-6 装帧: 精装 又名: The Passion of the Western Mind