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The book is an attempt to interpret and to make articulate the deeper and only half conscious strivings and impulses which have made our present western civilization differ from the civilization of antiquity and of the middle ages. The aim which is expressed in the prefactory note, “to exhibit the general contrasts between older and newer types of philosophic problems rather than to make partisan plea in behalf of any one specific solution of these problems”, is abundantly achieved and with a lucidity and directness which philosophical writings including Dewey’s earlier writing-seldom exhibit. Of Philosophic argument, in the familiar sence, there is very little. The whole book is merely an analysis of the varying and discrepant ways in which the modern individual has gotten or has failed to get what he really wants in the several regions of his life. In science and in political democracy, in the control of neture and the mastery of technique, much very much has been accomplished.
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ISBN : 9788121263078
Pages : 242
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