«What is missing is science - based solutions that focus on
the fundamentally social nature of this problem,» the authors state.
The realization of the crucial significance of relations between persons, and of
the fundamentally social nature of reality is the necessary, saving corrective of the dominance of our age by the scientific way of thinking, the results of which, as we know, may involve us in universal destruction, and by the technical mastery of things, which threatens man with the no less serious fate of dehumanization.
Not exact matches
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Fundamentally, we must abandon the idea that there is a specific standard to which we can control
nature and instead understand that we are creating complex and increasingly difficult - to - control systems that are part
social, part ecological and part technological.
Once the exceptional, but
fundamentally biological,
nature of the collective human complex is accepted, nothing prevents us (provided we take into account the modifications which have occurred in the dimensions in which we are working) from treating as authentic organs the diverse
social organisms which have gradually evolved in the course of the history of the human race.