Tulsi Prajna 2000 10

SR No.: 524605
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 128
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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exist and co-evolve with them. Any imperialistic design on its part would prove self-defeating and self-destructive. Science in its classical form has not been an unqualified blessing to the humankind and Nature as well. Its mechano-morphic view of the universe, its analyticreductionist approach to knowledge and its empirico-rationalist perspective on life have played havoc with man and his society. It has traduced man into a chemical phenomenon, a freak of physical nature and his cultural creations a sublimated form of base passions. Science understands the laws of nature and thereby helps technology harness the forces of nature. The two in tandem have inflicted irreversible damage to nature, the very womb that nurtured their creator -- the man. The classical science thus has been a mixed blessing. Its functional elan, however, is now on the wane and is gradually replaced by the regime of quantum science. The latter through its holistic/ecological vision is dispensing with all the anti-theses that the classical science has generated and is establishing some sort of a rapprochement and harmony with ancient traditions. The new science is projecting an integrated and holistic picture of life and existence. All antagonistic demarcations between man, society and nature slowly but steadily are being undermined in principle and they are bound to be effaced in practice also sooner than later. Quantum science represents a quantum jump in the realm of human understanding. It is the spirit of this science that needs to be diffused in all corners of society. However, hear also there is a need for caution: scientific truth whether of the classical or quantum variety, is always of an asymptotic nature; it, therefore, cannot provide a secure foundation for civilization building. It must enrich itself in order to deliver unqualified good to mankind with the insights and wisdom discovered by the spiritual cultures of man.
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Having explicated the imperatives and dilemmas connected with social change and scientific temper we now turn to Higher Education (HE). The importance of HE cannot be over-emphasised. No civilized society much less social progress is conceivable without HE. It is. HE that enables persons and people to shed the deadwood of the past, to escape the gravitational pull of conservative traditions, to cross the boundaries of denominational narrowness and bask in the sunshine of
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