Knowledge and Human Interests. Jürgen Habermas

Knowledge and Human Interests


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Knowledge and Human Interests Jürgen Habermas
Publisher: Beacon Press




To put it differently, if you have no goals, you don't need knowledge (of any kind). We are currently seeing increased interest in re-integrating human effort back into the computational process, in a complimentary relationship with machines. That's what we're doing." Startling stuff, isn't it? In the U.S., for example, the Department of Energy got very interested in the notion of studying the genome because of interest in mutation, and the mutation process associated with some forms of energy, such as nuclear energy. The choice for such a stance does not necessarily mean a reduction of one's personal interest, of participation—perhaps even the contrary. "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. You need knowledge only if you have goals. If you go to places like the National Institutes of . Over a period of almost eight decades, FEGS has evolved to become one of the largest and most diversified not-for-profit health and human service organizations in the United States. We want to provide a space for people old and young, from all non-/religious and ethnic backgrounds and from all levels of learning - then we will cultivate an interest in Philosophy. Lots of human-interest stories in today's papers: the terrible Bredasdorp rape and murder is still dominating in Cape Town while at the Dispatch, we've got. An effective development strategy and executing a plan to advance and further the interests of FEGS in expanding its portfolio of housing in a number of specialized markets with a special focus on affordable and mixed-use housing. We have gone from having a complete lack of knowledge of where to look in the genome for those variants to now having very discrete regions to look in. Innate Knowledge and Human Nature. As far as the anthropological determinants in closing up the gap of the “theory/practice” problem is concerned, one can consider Habermas' Knowledge and Human Interest ([1968] 1971). Human knowledge is personal and participant--placing us at the center of the universe.