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‘Two Cultures’ Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2010

Anthony O'Hear
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Extract

Vanity of Science Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

(Pascal, Pensées, No. 23)

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 41 , September 1996 , pp. 1 - 16
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 1996

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