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Stenka25 Posted 13 years ago
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What does this way represent?
The sentence below is from the book, “Justice” by M. J. Sandel.
With the advent of modern science, nature ceased to be seen as a meaningful order. Instead, it came to be understood mechanistically, governed by the laws of physics. /---/ Despite this shift, the temptation to see the world as teleologically ordered, as a purposeful whole, is not wholly absent. It persists, especially in children, who have to be educated out of seeing the world in this way.
I’m not sure about what this way represents.
In one sense of the context, it seems to mean to see the world as teleologically ordered, as a purposeful whole, when I see ‘out of’ as suggesting a negative sense, as in “I talked him out of the decision.”
But as I admitted in the above, I’m not 100 sure about my line of thought.
With the advent of modern science, nature ceased to be seen as a meaningful order. Instead, it came to be understood mechanistically, governed by the laws of physics. /---/ Despite this shift, the temptation to see the world as teleologically ordered, as a purposeful whole, is not wholly absent. It persists, especially in children, who have to be educated out of seeing the world in this way.
I’m not sure about what this way represents.
In one sense of the context, it seems to mean to see the world as teleologically ordered, as a purposeful whole, when I see ‘out of’ as suggesting a negative sense, as in “I talked him out of the decision.”
But as I admitted in the above, I’m not 100 sure about my line of thought.
Top answer
” I agree with this much. Children may naturally or intuitively see the world "that way," and various influences steer them out of it. (I'm not quite up on the philosophy.
- ” I agree with this much.
- Children may naturally or intuitively see the world "that way," and various influences steer them out of it.
- (I'm not quite up on the philosophy.
- I'm sure CJ can handle this.
- ) If they see the world mechanistically (governed by the laws of physics), I'm not sure in what way this is not a meaningful order.
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Stenka25In one sense of the context, it seems to mean to see the world as teleologically ordered, as a purposeful whole, when I see ‘out of’ as suggesting a negative sense, as in “I talked him out of the decision.”I agree with this much. Children may naturally or intuitively see the world "that way," and various influences steer them out of it.
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