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Politics, Ethics and Culture in Our Time
Harry Redner
其他書名
A Post-civilizational Perspective
出版BRILL, 2023-01-30
主題Philosophy / PoliticalSocial Science / GeneralPhilosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
ISBN90045381789789004538177
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=koCsEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Global capitalism is effecting changes in human life as momentous as those that occurred during the Neolithic Revolution, the Axial Age (700-300 BC), and the modern era post-1500, when industrial capitalism, state power, and science reshaped the civilized world. The transformation is paradoxical, however. Science and technology ensure material progress but the market promotes cultural obsolescence and erodes belief in the Enlightenment ideals that inspired the quest for progress. In Western democracies, liberty and equality are proving irreconcilable, citizens becoming demoralized, fraternity fractured; meanwhile despotic Eurasian states are recycling old faiths and concocting neo-imperialist ideologies. These contradictions must be confronted if the cultural values that sustain civilized life are to be conserved.