THE ALIENATED SUBJECT IN MODERN SCIENCE AS THE PROBLEM OF HUMANITY

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  • Husain Heriyanto Universitas Paramadina Jakarta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18592/khazanah.v20i2.8516

Keywords:

The Alienated Subject, Modern Science, Scientism, Skepticism, Problem of Humanity

Abstract

Those above-mentioned condition in short are not taken it as a given but it is established by the long and pervasive process of secularization of science which is primariy chracterized as the alienated knowing subject in mainstream scientific endeavours.  Such global calamities as injustice, poverty, wars, organized violence, terrorism, arms race, moral disorientation, alienation, abuse of human rights, global warming, and severe damage to nature and environmental sphere are the end-products of complex process of secularization of science.  R.D. Laing says “we have destroyed the world in theory before we destroy it in practice

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Published

2022-12-31

How to Cite

Heriyanto, H. (2022). THE ALIENATED SUBJECT IN MODERN SCIENCE AS THE PROBLEM OF HUMANITY. Khazanah: Jurnal Studi Islam Dan Humaniora, 20(2), 191–206. https://doi.org/10.18592/khazanah.v20i2.8516

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