This blog post delves deeply into whether genetic engineering technology surrounding designer babies represents an ethical choice or human progress. Regarding the question of what it would mean to genetically engineer children, Michael Sandel, author of ‘The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering,’ fundamentally dissects the moral and ethical issues. Assuming...
Can future scientific and technological advancements positively impact the enhancement of human happiness?
This blog post explores the future of scientific and technological development as presented in Yuval Noah Harari’s ‘Sapiens’ and its potential impact on human happiness. While Yuval Noah Harari’s book ‘Sapiens’ also addresses how the end of Homo sapiens might unfold, people have long imagined and predicted what the future might look like. However, we must not stop at merely...
Who is Ernest Hemingway, and what are the defining characteristics of his literary world?
Ernest Hemingway, who revolutionized modern literature with his concise and powerful prose. We delve deeply into his life and the literary world born from his experiences, including the Spanish Civil War, examining his stories that capture human nature and the essence of life. Hemingway’s literary world is one where violence and death abound, reminiscent of the ‘Valley of the Shadow...
Michael Sandel’s ‘The Ethics of Life’: Reflections on Genetic Engineering and Human Dignity
Through Michael Sandel’s ‘The Ethics of Life’, we explore the ethical issues surrounding genetic engineering and human enhancement, examining the values of fairness and dignity. The Antarctic expedition team of renowned scholar Charles Wells discovers traces of a 17-meter giant during their exploration and finds evidence of a civilization more advanced than our own. Meanwhile, his...
Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’: What questions does it pose to humanity’s quest to control nature?
This blog post examines the significance today of the attitude toward controlling nature and the questions it raises, as explored through Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’. The ‘Silent Spring’ that came to a once peaceful village After rain mixed with chemicals fell on a peaceful village once filled with birdsong and the scent of flowers, a ‘Silent Spring’ arrived where even when...
Blind Trust in Science: How Did Thomas Samuel Kuhn Shake It?
This blog post delves deeply into Thomas Samuel Kuhn’s paradigm theory and its philosophical significance, which challenged the belief that science represents absolute truth. Since the modern era, science has earned humanity’s boundless trust. The material prosperity promised by science and technology, coupled with the epistemological justification that science represents...
What is the fundamental difference between Eastern and Western ways of thinking?
In this blog post, based on The Geography of Thought, we examine the differences in Eastern and Western ways of thinking and explore how these differences influence each culture’s values and social behavior. I first pondered the meaning of the title ‘The Geography of Thought’. The first image that came to mind was that it might be a kind of ‘map of the mind’, visually representing...