Science, Technology and Philosophy in the Cultural Identity of Nations

Abstract

The article from a perspective of philosophy of science undertakes an attempt of broadening and refining the sense of addressing interrelations between science, technology and philosophy in contemporary research. The author points out that the hope that technological and scientific development of the last few decades would solve all the problems of the world were naïve and did not contribute suf­ficiently to the analysis of the current situation and the concept of science. As a possible solution the article proposes to take a look on the origins and ac­tual functioning of the phenomenon of science from a wider perspective. There­fore, the author conducts a historical-philosophical investigation that shows how widely spread modern views on science that led to the loss of cultural identity and unity emerged from the spirit of rational philosophy. The break between phi­losophy and science further led to the break between science and technology.
Using the inspired by non-Western tradition thought of Indian philosopher De­piprasad Chattopadhyaya the author provides a framework for a fruitful concep­tion of that unity of the sciences and humanities that should be a result of re­thinking their interrelations and foundations in the course of history and culture.