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Full Idea
The modern scientific world view, with all its hope for clarity and precision, has a flipside, …which is its abandonment of rationality in the world of human significance.
Gist of Idea
Modern science, by aiming for clarity about the external world, has abandoned rationality in the human world
Source
David Roochnik (The Tragedy of Reason [1990], p.74)
Book Ref
Roochnik,David: 'The Tragedy of Reason: the Platonic logos' [Routledge 1990], p.74
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