The Pentagon of PowerIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs. |
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... moral discipline , social awareness , and responsible political direc- tion : a need that was all too belatedly recognized only by a handful of nuclear scientists at the moment that " bombs of cosmic violence " were finally invented ...
... moral discipline , social awareness , and responsible political direc- tion : a need that was all too belatedly recognized only by a handful of nuclear scientists at the moment that " bombs of cosmic violence " were finally invented ...
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... moral code , a readiness to sacrifice immediate rewards to a more desirable future . As long as this basic morality , with its taboos , its inhibi- tions , its restrictions and abnegations remained ' second nature ' in the community ...
... moral code , a readiness to sacrifice immediate rewards to a more desirable future . As long as this basic morality , with its taboos , its inhibi- tions , its restrictions and abnegations remained ' second nature ' in the community ...
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... Moral culture , archaic , 351 Moral debacle , contemporary , 431 Moral evaluation , automation's resistance to , 184 Moral standards , abandonment of , by civilized nations , 233 Moral values , disruption of , 370 Morality , basic , 352 ...
... Moral culture , archaic , 351 Moral debacle , contemporary , 431 Moral evaluation , automation's resistance to , 184 Moral standards , abandonment of , by civilized nations , 233 Moral values , disruption of , 370 Morality , basic , 352 ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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