Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Humankind, Planetization, Psyche

In the past century, a combination of technological advances, including aeronautical, has produced empirical confirmation of a long-held hypothesis--that the Earth is approximately spherical.  Furthermore, the virtually instantaneous internal connectivity of the human species has recently been actualized by the Internet.  Together, the two developments have made potentially available to each member of the species the concrete awareness of the Planetization of Humankind, abstractly pre-figured by Kant's concept of a Rational being's consciousness of a Universal Law, though not necessarily with the same imperative.  The impact of this new awareness on the Psyche of any member of the species is still in very early stages.

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