In this age rockets and space exploration science has made a remarkable contribution to the development of culture in every society and civilization. As a handmaid of education, science is automatically connected with culture. Although men of letters, who are generally taken to be the guardians of culture, tend to look with certain apprehension at the impact of science on cultural values, modern thinking on this subject differs with this outlook and regards their fears as unfounded.Science and letters are no moving closer gradually and there is no wedge between these once conflicting disciplines. Science does not spelt the ruin of culture; it promotes it and hardness it to, modern requirements.
Culture is a way of life common to a particular people and it is hased on a social tradition. Which is embodied in its institutions and its literature. There is also another concept of culture which is stated to be the harmonious development of human nature by the cultivation of mind. It is a quest for vision and understanding.
Culture is a way of life common to a particular people and it is hased on a social tradition. Which is embodied in its institutions and its literature. There is also another concept of culture which is stated to be the harmonious development of human nature by the cultivation of mind. It is a quest for vision and understanding.
It is a conditioning of conscious self to understand and to create whatever is worthwhile. The culture of the individual is safeguarded by the cultural aspects of the country, by its traditions embodied in its institutions and literature and society, which in its turn, is enriched by the contribution of its great men of art and literature. The fear of literary men that science and technology may ruin our culture. They seen to confine culture to a sort of literary creation on the literature of a group and not of the society.
Literature, as the finest expression of the human aesthetic experience, may be a privileged instrument of shaping the culture of the individual, but it is not the only means of doing so. In fact a whole new culture is rising in the world as a result of rapid advances in science and technology. C.P. Show points out, how literary men have tended to be a little aloof and unrealistic and from the splendid isolation of their ivory tower, have sung of beauty and nature and of the vices of industrialization, totally oblivious of the condition of the masses.
Culture has been somehow associate with aristocracy and the poor have no use for it. The scientific revolution, by its efficacy and its extra ordinary achievements, has infused anew optimism among men. No problem is now considered too difficult to solve.
The scientist believes that, by research and hard work, he can solve many problems that were till now relegated to the result of fate. With such optimism and belief in success man feels a new sense of urgency in solving the grave problems of hunger and poverty, which
afflicts two-thirds of humanity today.
[ Part 2 ]
Literature, as the finest expression of the human aesthetic experience, may be a privileged instrument of shaping the culture of the individual, but it is not the only means of doing so. In fact a whole new culture is rising in the world as a result of rapid advances in science and technology. C.P. Show points out, how literary men have tended to be a little aloof and unrealistic and from the splendid isolation of their ivory tower, have sung of beauty and nature and of the vices of industrialization, totally oblivious of the condition of the masses.
Culture has been somehow associate with aristocracy and the poor have no use for it. The scientific revolution, by its efficacy and its extra ordinary achievements, has infused anew optimism among men. No problem is now considered too difficult to solve.
The scientist believes that, by research and hard work, he can solve many problems that were till now relegated to the result of fate. With such optimism and belief in success man feels a new sense of urgency in solving the grave problems of hunger and poverty, which
afflicts two-thirds of humanity today.
[ Part 2 ]
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