Not exact matches
And what about the hope and optimism still
embodied in the areas of
human creativity — science and its attendant technologies?
How far this
creativity can go in creating the
human level in the case of any one individual depends partly upon his innate capacity but most of all upon two other features: (1) how wide and deep is the volume of history that reaches him, that is, how abundant and coherent are the values that have been accumulated in the history he inherits and (2) how deep is the communion he is able to have with other persons who
embody these meanings accumulated through a long sequence of generations.
The homo faber image
embodied in existentialism, Marxism, and humanistic social sciences saps
creativity from the cosmos and squeezes it into a culturally creative
human subject or society.