Modernity and Human Liberation
I read this blog at the academic site, Immanent Frame and it inspired to comment as below:
"If modernity is about “human liberation” the question must inevitably be asked, is man better off as “liberated?” While a lack of freedom can clearly result in despotisms ranging from merely semi-authoritarian to totalitarian, is “complete freedom” or “mastery” bringing about happiness in the human condition?
"If modernity is about “human liberation” the question must inevitably be asked, is man better off as “liberated?” While a lack of freedom can clearly result in despotisms ranging from merely semi-authoritarian to totalitarian, is “complete freedom” or “mastery” bringing about happiness in the human condition?
This seems to be the crux upon which the debate over modernity rests. Certainly, modernity has yielded amazing material gains. However, even as it satisfies physical needs (and even physical desires far exceeding needs) does it satisfy the non-material yearnings that man has? If not, then can modernity be considered a teleologically “good” thing?"
What say the readers?
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