The Instability of Modern Knowledge

A clip of Bryan Magee and Ernest Gellner discussing the growth and instability of modern knowledge in the context of modern philosophy. This comes from a 1977 program on the social context of modern philosophy in a series on Modern Philosophy with Bryan Magee called Men of Ideas.

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[paulbreen]

Good old Bryan Magee, he did his best to emancipate us oiks, break us out of jail.

[Tapa]

Modern experience instills a multi-sensorial ever-changing unstoppable modern knowledge without any higher ideals or scope of improvement.

[peterclark]

The response was nearly perfect. We know very little and as all above us has its current explanation from the now is somewhat ignorant of the need to understand the underlying structures that lie 'below us'. The question was a glimpse into the arrogance of mankind. The short answer is the professionalisation of Science: it needs to become self-funded and the resources managed by those whose careers ultimately rested on common sense. The outcome is self-assembling universes: ergo there is a single unifying factor common to everything it renders. My guess, only one thing exists, energy, as discrete bipolar perpetual motion machina whose construction provides a binary logic: that is the Logos. Space is as close to nothing there can be.