I never thought about the idea that science can be so much of a blessing as so much of a curse. Without science’s development we would be dying of sicknesses that are curable nowadays, our lives wouldn’t be as comfortable without all the technological advances and we wouldn’t know our world as much as we do now. But in the other hand, violence and wars wouldn’t be as bad as they are because there wouldn’t be powerful weapons to easily kill people. It is also interesting to see how when science began to grow and develop religion lost some power. Once people began to discover that phenomenon had a scientific explanation other than a divine one, they began to question their beliefs. Science became a faith, it had the same effect on people like religion previously had. People saw the scientist like Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein and others as gods. People began to think that they could have all the answers to understand our existence.
The Scientific Revolution originated around the same time as the Renaissance was happening. People showed more interest in educating themselves and became more human, they were ready to grow and were interesting in investigating and discovering new things. Before the Scientific Revolution, the human being was described as a machine, nobody focused in explaining and analyzing the actual “human” side of men. Humanism was another important feature of the Scientific Revolution.
When reading about the Renaissance it didn’t even crossed my mind to think about the influence of humanism in Science. I thought humanism was mainly focused and expressed through visual arts.
I wonder if eventually technology will one more time destroy our human side, it seems to me that little by little we are relying on technology to connect with other people, to create visual arts and increase scientific development. Will humans realize this and have the need of another wave of humanism??
Saturday, December 13, 2008
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I think that we may see a shift back to humanism however i fear that the shift will be caused by major disaster. I think that a climate shift or major storm will be the cause of the shift and our technology will do nothing to help so people will realize that they need to stop relying on the technology and rely on each other.
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