Lesson 7: The Human Person in Society

Enthusiasm for the new science ushered in a deep-seated philosophical

trend, whose adherents stressed the importance of universally compelling
science for philosophy. This attitude in Descartes and in all others who
have taken it implied the expectation that the new scientific philosophy
would soon gain acceptance as the universally valid truth, and each of
these philosophers consequently prided himself on being the cornerstone
and founder of the true scientific philosophy. Here was the starting point
for the rationalistic intolerance that is so widespread in the modern
world: the dogmatic presumptuousness of reason made for an attitude of
self-assurance (Johnston 2006).

Guided Learning:
Small Group Project/Assignment

1. How do you understand the "rebellious"spirit that defines the modern period?

, In what way did the modern philc.iophers and scientific discoveries transform us?

. Explain the Vitruvian man.

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Globalization and Technological Innovations

C
. Globalization is not a one-way process, but comprises the multilateral
interactions among global systems, local practices, transnational trends,
and personal lifestyles. At various instances, this interlocking of the global,
the local and the personal can be smooth or rough for communities and
individuals who respond favorably or adversely to it. Also, globalization
makes local knowledge no longer purely local. The process of globalization,
however, had already begun long before the twenty-first century.
Globalization, in the sense of adoption and acceptance of some standards
in the various aspects of life, had its embryonic beginnings in the West in the
fifteenth century as an accompaniment to the new ideas of the Renaissance
and then the Enlightenment.
. The introduction of new inventions in science eventually led to the
industrial revolujon in the eighteenth century, and since then, Western
society has taken off on a journey through the endless world of science to
bring society into the developed conditions that can be seen today. Initially,
the word "industry"and the period in which its use changes is the period that
we call the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution is a movement in
which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of
manufacture. Industry, before this period, was a name for particular human

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