A Critique of Man’s Control Over Civilization: An Anthropocentric Illusion
By Leslie A. White.
Within the first few sentences of the article Leslie White provides us with a clear thesis: Man believes that he is
in control of his civilization by creations such as “tools and machines…At least he so fondly believes.” The purpose of Leslie’s article is to prove that man only believes that he has control over civilization and the process which are contained herein.
Leslie starts the article with quotes from what seems to be very well educated men (which is a paradox to a statement made latter within the article), at least for their time. The actual argument starts at the end of page with Leslie talking about looking for examples of man’s control over culture. The article then talks about societies attempts to control small “insignificant segments” of our culture like our spelling, the calendar and the system of measurements. He states that we can not even manage to change the......
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Approximate Pages: 7 (260 words per double-spaced page) |