October 2015

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Review: The Soul of The Apostolate

The Soul of The Apostolate by Jean-Baptiste Chautard. Paperback, 298 pages Published January 1st 1946 by TAN Books (first published 1937). Original title: L'Âme de tout apostolat. ISBN 0895550318 (ISBN13: 9780895550316) Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard born March 12, 1858 in Briancon [...]

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Technocratic Paradigm II

110. The specialization which belongs to technology makes it difficult to see the larger picture. The fragmentation of knowledge proves helpful for concrete applications, and yet it often leads to a loss of appreciation for the whole, for the relationships between things, and for the broader [...]

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Technocratic Paradigm I

106. The basic problem goes even deeper: it is the way that humanity has taken up technology and its development according to an undifferentiated and one-dimensional paradigm. This paradigm exalts the concept of a subject who, using logical and rational procedures, progressively approaches and [...]

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Technology: creativity and Power

102. Humanity has entered a new era in which our technical prowess has brought us to a crossroads. We are the beneficiaries of two centuries of enormous waves of change: steam engines, railways, the telegraph, electricity, automobiles, aeroplanes, chemical industries, modern medicine, [...]

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Review: The Soul of The Apostolate