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the contemporary world

1 st feature of the contemporary world:

(In years 60) There is a predominance of science. Everything is conditioned by science. It is a science that is reduced to a method (system testing, etc ...) The purpose of this method would control the production of science and generating social planning. In science you can do several criticisms:

1-partial is knowledge, science lacks the global perspective (view all). It can not give the meaning of life is meaningless because no vision of the whole. Science is providing images of the world (world views), an overview of everything despite being a partial knowledge. Priority is given to the scientific knowledge on the other, so there is a break of knowledge as a whole. The man loses his sense of what you are doing, no horizon of intelligibility. The gradual increase in knowledge of science and its expansion to other areas of knowledge does not solve this problem because there is no global horizon of understanding.

2 - A second transformation following the introduction of Science is the loss justifying the work. Philosophy must explain the why of things and meanings, to justify their knowledge and other knowledge. Science does not justify its products, has no capacity to do so. You can do this implicitly, but it justifies itself in its intrinsic legality. Science is inherently weak, even in its own grounds, proceeds without self-criticism. The criticism that can receive is external. It happens then that the dominant knowledge is knowledge without control. Science is knowledge unfounded. It is self-righteous, but the scientific knowledge in general, has no justification. Can not justify its own scientific conception must resort to philosophy.

3 - Another feature that characterizes modern science is its orientation certainty. The statements persuade the subject that something is true, it removes all doubt, and thereby abandons the search for the truth of things. Science is dangerous because it enjoys enormous prestige and benefits of science (we) hope that prestige to fix our problems. This is the foundation its prestige and thus also the man loses responsibilities. But science is a plug. You will have to confront the science problemas.La Pegunta just so predictable, excluding the unexpected, chance. As a result, modern science occurs an estrangement, as modern man has greater knowledge advances and life has less meaning. Life is slipping, this does not have a sense of wholeness, and consequently some of its areas are marginalized. In closing, to be strange world, man himself is strange. Western culture is crumbling, it has destroyed the concept and how to live the truth.

2 nd feature of the contemporary world:

live in an age without philosophy, because the last great philosopher of the West has been Hegel, and since philosophy has gone and has not been able leader who was at the time of Hegel. Indeed, there are philosophies that have failed to lead. From 1850 to 1960, the philosophy is conspicuous by its absence. This has generated a total disorientation. No religion or philosophy of science will have enormous power.

Gadamer attempt to recover the philosophy of society towards the realm of science.