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The solution lies , as some think and I agree too, in" reconnecting with earlier ways of thinking about society and its relations with nature - both external nature, the environment, and nature in the human body. “Reason” could and should include such ethical thought. Value neutrality (as in Indian Secularism, European racism or American equality of gender) is a dangerous illusion, a chimera, something to be avoided, not to be treated as a guarantee of academic respectability":33 No doubt, the gains injustice and equality from modern bureaucracy is a benefit to modern culture, and yet Freud saw the modern culture as “dominated by a one dimensional form of technical reason." If reason is not used to provide collective purposes and to criticize existing assumptions then, in his view unreason takes over.
At the close of this discussion on Values and Justice, I would quote the words of Robert Bocock from his article “The Cultural Formation of Modern Society" printed in Formation of Modernity (Vol. I P 229-274); “Someone must continue to think about, and write about, human life – there must be someone to weigh up questions of value and the ultimate purpose of existing values, and to debate how we ought to live and how we ought to try to arrange our collective lives together. Who else will take responsibility for this if not intellectuals?
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