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Author Smuts, Jan Christian

Title Our changing world-view : ten lectures on recent movements of thought in science, economics, education, literature and philosophy
Published Johannesburg, South Africa : Wits University Press, 2021

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Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Preface -- 1. Some Recent Scientific Advances in Their Bearing on Philosophy -- 2. The Material World-Yesterday and Today -- 3. Evolution-Design or Accident? -- 4. Man at the Crossroads -- 5. Psychology in Perspective -- 6. Literature in the Machine Age -- 7. The Holistic Attitude in Education -- 8. Our Changing Economic World -- 9. Africa in the Re-Making -- 10. Old Truths and New Discoveries
Summary Ranging from economics, psychology, a spurious rebuttal of evolution to a substantial revisionist history, and the perils of the 'machine age', the ten lectures (originally published in 1932) includes leading intellectuals and academics of the day, notably Jan Smuts, Robert Broom and R.F.A. Hoernlé
Subject Civilization, Modern.
Speeches, addresses, etc., African.
Civilization, Modern
Speeches, addresses, etc., African
Genre/Form e-books.
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781776145560
1776145569
9781776145577
1776145577