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- Title: Reason's Personal and Public Roles in Meeting Snow's Challenge.
- Author : Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 283 KB
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Introduction C.P. Snow left quite a challenge; one he was not at all sure could be met. The question is whether humans might individually reach a degree of integration such that they are able to participate meaningfully in both the culture of science and that of which modern literature is emblematic? Can inquirers take up, to some life changing degree, the findings of science and the modernist (or even postmodernist) leanings of recent and contemporary literature? Can they take up (and use) realist and empiricist inquiries into the physical existence of which humans are a part and in which they find their way forward in progress, whilst embracing literature that treats us with "...ahistoricity: [and offers up a] static view of the human condition (meaning by this mainly what [Snow has] called the social condition)"? (See Snow, 1964, p. 95.) But even more, the challenge is to put this integrated intellectual culture to work for the amelioration of the human condition. Assuming inquirers can sort out the defensible from the indefensible uses of science, can they move forward to employ it? In 1963 Snow did not believe humans were yet ready: