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Science is corrupting the religion and philosophy of modern man by giving him means without ends. So Theologian Paul Tillich told the centennial celebration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week...
...gauge for measuring the influence of science, Tillich took the Greek word telos: "the inner aim of a life process." To the classical Greeks, said Tillich, man's inner aim-his telos-was "the actualization of his potentialities and the conquest of those distortions of his nature which are caused by his bondage to error and passions." This idea, common to Heraclitus, Socrates, the Stoics and the Epicureans, is still alive in the modern world in the "humanist" tradition...
Technique for Itself. To the early Christian, man's telos, according to Tillich was the drive to rise from "the universe of finitude and guilt" to reunion with God-the "ultimate reality, the transcendent ground" of all existence. Christianity was suspicious of science-especially physics-"not because of its critical power but because it ties the mind to the material world...
Could pragmatism and logical positivism be the "ultimate cause"? Both point to a deeper relationship between the rise of scientific method and the various types of anxiety. The misapplication of this method, coupled with a strange mixture of rationalism and naturalism, may be costing man his spiritual soul. Paul Tillich suggests that man has been "divided into a bloodless intellect and a meaningless vitality." Perhaps our spiritual anxiety indicates that we are not completely lost...
Following Huxley and Paul Tillich, Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, spoke on the changes that the new technology has brought. "We have increased the sense of effectiveness in life but have not reduced the tragic in life," he declared...