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인류세 시대 화이트헤드의 귀환 - 역사의 두 경향 ([이성의 기능])

세세생생 2021. 2. 2. 12:55

화이트헤드, ?이성의 기능 The Function of Reason?의 서문에서 역사의 두 경향에 대한 혁명적 명제

 

"History discloses two main tendencies in the course of events.

 

One tendency is exemplified in the slow decay of physical nature. With stealthy inevitableness, there is degradation of energy. The sources of activity sink downward and downward. Their very matter wastes.

The other tendency is exemplified by the yearly renewal of nature in the spring, and by the upward course of biological evolution. In these pages I consider Reason in its relation to theses contrasted aspects of history. Reason is the self-discipline of the originative element in history. Apart from the operations of Reason this element is anarchic."

 

 

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