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A New Enlightenment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Adriano A. Buzzati-Traverso
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Perhaps modern man's major mistake was that of considering science as the quintessence of reason and of believing, accordingly, that scientific progress is synonymous with human progress.

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Diogenes , Volume 23 , Issue 91 , January 1975 , pp. 106 - 127
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Copyright © 1975 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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