The Next Development Of Mankind

Author : Lancelot Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351478328

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The Next Development of Mankind by Lancelot Whyte Pdf

This searching examination of human development provides new perspectives on the moral, political, scientific, emotional, and intellectual divisions of our time. A physicist by profession, Whyte looked beyond the boundaries of specialization for creative ways to approach the basic problem facing modern Western civilization: Why are we so competent technically and yet unable to order our own affairs, socially and personally? He takes the reader with him on a journey that is nothing less than a new interpretation of the general development of human consciousness.Whyte's thesis is that the current stage of human development makes not only necessary, but inevitable, constructing a ""unitary method of thought"" to overcome the dualism of the modern Western mind. He argues that the deepest troubles of Western civilization are due, in large part, to excessive reliance on the ancient Greek postulates of permanence and invariance as an ordered form of thought resulting in an extreme, mechanistic anti-humanism. What culminated in two world wars, Whyte argued, is a European dissociation, or ""lesion."" This dissociation represents an achievement in terms of rational mastery of the natural and human worlds, unique social dynamism and differentiation, and the flowering of individuality. But the price was high: disordering of thought, emotion, and will; conflict between our deliberate and spontaneous, conscious, and unconscious energies; unstable polarization between a delusive unchanging ideal world and the reality of human transience and limitation. Whyte chooses nine thinkers to illustrate this historical and evolutionary movement, including Heraclitus, Marx, and Freud, and the resulting rignettes are a synthesis of knowledge that suggest, as well, a reorientation of thought, feeling, and action for the future.Lewis Mumford wrote of The Next Development of Mankind, ""The book has intense and immediate value both for the practical person and for the theoretic thinker."" Sixty years a

Author : Lancelot Law Whyte
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015019793358

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The Next Development in Man by Lancelot Law Whyte Pdf

Author : Lancelot Law Whyte
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123682028

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The Next Development in Man by Lancelot Law Whyte Pdf

Author : Lancelot Law Whyte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1315133520

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The Next Development in Mankind by Lancelot Law Whyte Pdf

"This searching examination of human development provides new perspectives on the moral, political, scientific, emotional, and intellectual divisions of our time. A physicist by profession, Whyte looked beyond the boundaries of specialization for creative ways to approach the basic problem facing modern Western civilization: Why are we so competent technically and yet unable to order our own affairs, socially and personally? He takes the reader with him on a journey that is nothing less than a new interpretation of the general development of human consciousness.Whyte's thesis is that the current stage of human development makes not only necessary, but inevitable, constructing a ""unitary method of thought"" to overcome the dualism of the modern Western mind. He argues that the deepest troubles of Western civilization are due, in large part, to excessive reliance on the ancient Greek postulates of permanence and invariance as an ordered form of thought resulting in an extreme, mechanistic anti-humanism. What culminated in two world wars, Whyte argued, is a European dissociation, or ""lesion."" This dissociation represents an achievement in terms of rational mastery of the natural and human worlds, unique social dynamism and differentiation, and the flowering of individuality. But the price was high: disordering of thought, emotion, and will; conflict between our deliberate and spontaneous, conscious, and unconscious energies; unstable polarization between a delusive unchanging ideal world and the reality of human transience and limitation. Whyte chooses nine thinkers to illustrate this historical and evolutionary movement, including Heraclitus, Marx, and Freud, and the resulting rignettes are a synthesis of knowledge that suggest, as well, a reorientation of thought, feeling, and action for the future.Lewis Mumford wrote of The Next Development of Mankind, ""The book has intense and immediate value both for the practical person and for the theoretic thinker."" Sixty years a"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Otto Pfleiderer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Theology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081801573

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The Development of Theology in Germany Since Kant by Otto Pfleiderer Pdf

Author : David Graeber,David Wengrow
Publisher : Signal
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780771049835

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The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber,David Wengrow Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Renowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social inequality--and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation. For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could only be achieved by sacrificing those original freedoms, or alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. Graeber and Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a conservative reaction to powerful critiques of European society posed by Indigenous observers and intellectuals. Revisiting this encounter has startling implications for how we make sense of human history today, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery, and civilization itself. Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we learn to throw off our conceptual shackles and perceive what's really there. If humans did not spend 95% of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? What was really happening during the periods that we usually describe as the emergence of "the state"? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of human history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful, hopeful possibilities, than we tend to assume. The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision, and a faith in the power of direct action.

Author : Walter Schubart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Civilization, Oriental
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010387889

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Russia and Western Man by Walter Schubart Pdf

Author : Иван Тимофеевич Фролов
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Economic history
ISBN : UVA:X000626217

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Global Problems and the Future of Mankind by Иван Тимофеевич Фролов Pdf

Author : Yun Zhao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : International law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105134447668

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Space Commercialization and the Development of Space Law from a Chinese Legal Perspective by Yun Zhao Pdf

This book will be the first English on space law written by a Chinese scholar. With the rapid development of space activities in China, many space scientist and lawyers are keen to know Chinese Legal views on policies and laws on space activities. The book discusses new development of space law in view of the rapid development of space commercial activities from a Chinese legal perspective. The topics selected in the book reflect the author's teaching and research in space law at four different universities: Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, City University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong. Six areas of space law issues have been selected: property rights, space registration and liability regime, launching services, telecommunications services, national space legislation and international space co-operation. All the topics are closely related to current Chinese space legislation and practice. When dealing with the above six issues, the author will first briefly discuss the current rules and practice at the international level, followed by in-depth analysis of Chinese situation. This will be a unique book. Those who are researching on space law and/or in charge of formulating national space policy will be especially interested in the elaboration of Chinese attitude toward space commercialisation and of the current Chinese space policies and laws.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Education
ISBN : IOWA:31858046289587

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The New Era in Home and School by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UOM:39015058005219

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Man & Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ray Kurzweil
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101218884

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The Singularity Is Near by Ray Kurzweil Pdf

“Startling in scope and bravado.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times “Artfully envisions a breathtakingly better world.” —Los Angeles Times “Elaborate, smart and persuasive.” —The Boston Globe “A pleasure to read.” —The Wall Street Journal One of CBS News’s Best Fall Books of 2005 • Among St Louis Post-Dispatch’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2005 • One of Amazon.com’s Best Science Books of 2005 A radical and optimistic view of the future course of human development from the bestselling author of How to Create a Mind and The Singularity is Nearer who Bill Gates calls “the best person I know at predicting the future of artificial intelligence” For over three decades, Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic The Age of Spiritual Machines, he argued that computers would soon rival the full range of human intelligence at its best. Now he examines the next step in this inexorable evolutionary process: the union of human and machine, in which the knowledge and skills embedded in our brains will be combined with the vastly greater capacity, speed, and knowledge-sharing ability of our creations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : History
ISBN : PRNC:32101077787982

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The Journal of Race Development by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ivan Timofeevic Frolov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1203653766

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Global Problems and the Future of Mankind by Ivan Timofeevic Frolov Pdf

Author : Max Tegmark
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781101946602

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Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark Pdf

New York Times Best Seller How will Artificial Intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology—and there’s nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who’s helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial. How can we grow our prosperity through automation without leaving people lacking income or purpose? What career advice should we give today’s kids? How can we make future AI systems more robust, so that they do what we want without crashing, malfunctioning or getting hacked? Should we fear an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons? Will machines eventually outsmart us at all tasks, replacing humans on the job market and perhaps altogether? Will AI help life flourish like never before or give us more power than we can handle? What sort of future do you want? This book empowers you to join what may be the most important conversation of our time. It doesn’t shy away from the full range of viewpoints or from the most controversial issues—from superintelligence to meaning, consciousness and the ultimate physical limits on life in the cosmos.