Humanity at the crossroads : technological progress, spiritual evolution, and the dawn of the nuclear age / Garth J. Hallett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hallett, Garth, 1960- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Free will and determinism--Philosophy.

Free will and determinism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Hamilton Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Humanity at the Crossroads</span><span> attempts to answer questions regarding the effect of technological progress on our lives. This book concludes that the very technology which threatens to destroy us, not merely its more favorable offshoots, is itself the catalyst for that better world we may yet hope to inhabit.</span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Old Endings and New Beginnings; 1 The Turning Point; 2 The Hinge of Paradox; 3 Beyond the Turning Point; 4 Out of Division and Darkness; 5 Into Unity and Light; 6 The New World on the Horizon; 7 The Law of the Jungle and the Return to Eden; 8 How We Perceive the World; 9 When the Past Resists the Future; 10 Projections and Conclusions; II: Challenges along the Way; 11 Problems of Perception and the Transfer of Knowledge; 12 The Problem of Selfish Individualism; 13 The Problem of Accelerating Change; 14 Problems with the Commercial Culture

15 The Problem of the Larger Context16 The Issue of Collective Goods and "Bads"; 17 The Problem of Basic Need; 18 The Problem of Malignant Nationalism; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hallett, Garth J. Humanity at the crossroads : technological progress, spiritual evolution, and the dawn of the nuclear age.

ISBN:

0-7618-6561-6

0-7618-6562-4