CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE, MODERN REALITY AND QUANTIC SCIENCE
CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE, MODERN REALITY AND QUANTIC SCIENCE

Summary/Abstract: Science, philosophy and literature have evolved in a most impressive way, triggering a similar evolution both in the nature of human ideas and ideals, and in our way of describing them. From a closed space to an open one, from a world centred on man to a world in which man can no longer find his place, we have witnessed and created change. But one thing has not changed and that is the inextricable connection between science and culture. The science of today has neither the limitations, nor the fake unity that characterised the classical view of the world, but, on the other hand, it is no longer tantamount to modern science, which attempted to separate itself completely from other ways of intellectual inquiry, and to present a unified image of reality. Quantum theory now describes a fragmentary, richly diversified universe, full of surprising potentialities. In the field of humanities the situation is very similar: cultural particularities are now perceived as unique and important in themselves, none excluding the others, none being forcefully imposed as the central, fundamental one.

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