Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 3 May 2000 to 4 May 2000
From: Alan Cooper (acooper@langara.bc.ca)
Date: Sun 07 May 2000 - 07:55:38 MEST
Date: Sat, 06 May 2000 22:55:38 -0700 From: Alan Cooper <acooper@langara.bc.ca> Subject: Re: IFETS-DISCUSS Digest - 3 May 2000 to 4 May 2000
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Gene Schmidt wrote:
> .... C.P. Snow thought the boundaries between the science and technology culture
> which won World War II and the humanist culture which lost, ...
While humanism loses in any war, the identification of the losing side in WWII with
championship of humanist culture is not a position consistent with my (admittedly
limited) understanding of C.P.Snow. Perhaps some context and the actual quote would help
me to understand it better.
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