Titlebook: Newton‘s Sleep; The Two Cultures and Raymond Tallis Book 1995 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1995 culture.p

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Omnesciencet is deeply unsatisfactory that most people should be distant from the major cultural force of our time, being engulfed in the technological consequences of science but having no insight into its basis, its methods, its powers and its limitations.

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‘The Murderousness and Gadgetry of this Age’Steiner’s passing reference to ‘all that is literally bestial in the murderousness and gadgetry of this age’ is but an extreme example of a widespread hostility to the pervasiveness of technology in the present age. The moral differences between Auschwitz and Special Care Baby Units, between machine

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Anti-Science and Organic Daydreamsemned precisely insofar as it is preoccupied with meeting material needs and wants, and (to use Bacon’s terms) its ‘experiments of use’ outnumber its ‘experiments of light’. Worse, the successes of science have encouraged scientists — and many others in the centuries dominated by science-based techn

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Misunderstanding Art: The Myth of Enrichment the importance attributed to the production and consumption of works of art. If art serves no moral function, is it not trivial, empty? Why should it be fostered, sponsored, cherished, taught, encouraged if it leaves the world morally unchanged? There are two sorts of answer to this question. They

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A Metaphysical Interlude: The Uselessness of Consciousnesseauty has nothing to do with morality, usefulness or even edification, is an ancient position — reaching back as far as Plato and the quarrel between the poets and the philosophers; but in recent centuries it has usually been associated with a frivolous desire to shock or at least has been served up

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The Difficulty of Arrivalsised its practical uselessness. It is obvious that art cannot be justified on the basis of the material benefits it brings. And, as was argued in ‘The Freezing Coachman’, exposure to art doesn’t seem to do much for the morality of nations or of private citizens. After millenia of great art, people

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