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Taking the Humanities Seriously |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE HUMANITIES |
| Author: E.M. Adams |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 5,566 Words, 34,545 Characters |
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We moderns are living in a condition of cultural schizophrenia. We think of ourselves through humanistic categories such as meaning, subjectivity, selfhood, normativeness, value, social reality, and the like. Indeed, we are humanistic beings, for the humanistic conceptual system is grounded in our being and involved in our constitution as persons as well as in the structure and texture of the lives we live. Yet we insist on placing ourselves under the modern scientific conceptual system and locating ourselves in the world as defined by it. As a result, our culture produces a serious human identity crisis that expresses itself in various forms of alienation and in other personal and social pathologies.
How did this crisis in Western civilization come about? Bourgeois life is governed b...
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... and possibilities for the future, and (6) revitalization and transformation of the traditional forms of humanistic thought, scholarship, and education under the influence of these wider concerns. The investment of a few million dollars in such a program might be worth more for the future of civilization than billions for further scientific and technological advances in the quest for power.
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