Word: scientismic
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...whatever name, there is an impending sense of change in the world of ideas. The reigning wisdom that informed and compelled the past few decades is under attack-or, at the very least, under crossexamination. That wisdom has been variously called liberalism, rationalism, scientism: concepts certainly not identical but related. But now man's confidence in his power to control his world is at a low ebb. Technology is seen as a dangerous ally, and progress is suspect. Even the evolutionists share this unease; their hope lies not in man as he is but in some mutant superman...
...rebellion is against the rationalization of the world, against the scientism," he said Hollomon is a former executive for General Electric and former assistant Secretary of Commerce under Kennedy and Johnson...
...anarchist thrust-though it can be destructively powerful-leads nowhere. Some rebels sensing this, will look around for a more constructive vision. When they look, there will be the bearded prophet with his peculiar mix of scientism and moral passion, his peculiar way of linking yesterday-today-tomorrow, his peculiar kind of oversimplification and exaggeration, his peculiar kind of hope...
Thinking Weed. Durrell's representation of the cultural climate is Merlin otherwise known as The Firm, an international syndicate with tentacles in all the world's major markets. It is the embodiment of 20th century scientism, an emotionally neutral, self-perpetuating system of techniques that can be used for good or evil. Drawn into The Firm's cushy embrace is Inventor Felix Charlock, who sees himself as a "thinking weed," a pun on Pascal's definition of man as a "thinking reed." The Firm wants Charlock for his new recording device, which leads to the development...
...party because Odegaard is so blunt. He says that "it's better to get dead cats out on the top of the table. I hate sitting down to a pussyfooting conversation." He startled the National Academy of Sciences meeting by declaring in a formal address that "scientism" at too many universities has "run riot," aided by "the contemptuous attitude of some scientists toward moral problems." A university, he said, must teach values as well as facts, since "the pressure of events each day forces all of us to make value decisions now of titanic consequence, and youth will...