The Plague: Modern life.
The social structures and thought patterns of the modern world are the fruits of the Enlightenment, which begins by eliminating final causal explanations in favour of purely material and efficient causes. The development and great technical success of Enlightenment procedures has, however, produced...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Investigations Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 396 - 411 |
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