There is another aspect of man’s being which is the crucial one in psychotherapy as contrasted with other treatments. This is that each and every man is at the same time separate from his fellows and related to them. Such separateness and relatedness are mutually necessary postulates. Personal relatedness can exist only between beings who are separate but who are not isolates. We are not isolates and we are not parts of the same physical body. Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness, but any particular person is not a necessary part of our being.
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There is another aspect of man’s being which is the crucial one in psychotherapy as contrasted with other treatments. This is that each and every man is at the same time separate from his fellows and related to them. Such separateness and relatedness are mutually…
- The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness.
The improvement of medical practice,
which will become more efficacious with the progress of reason and of the social order, will mean the end of infectious and hereditary diseases and illnesses brought on by climate, food, or working conditions. It is reasonable to hope that all other diseases may likewise disappear as their distant causes are discovered.
- Marquis de Condorcet, 1790s
which will become more efficacious with the progress of reason and of the social order, will mean the end of infectious and hereditary diseases and illnesses brought on by climate, food, or working conditions. It is reasonable to hope that all other diseases may likewise disappear as their distant causes are discovered.
- Marquis de Condorcet, 1790s
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The improvement of medical practice, which will become more efficacious with the progress of reason and of the social order, will mean the end of infectious and hereditary diseases and illnesses brought on by climate, food, or working conditions. It is reasonable…
"إنّ الممارسات الطبية التي سوف تصير أكثر فعّاليةً مع تطور الفِكر والنظام الإجتماعي، ستؤدي في النهاية إلى القضاء على الأمراض المُعدية والوراثية والأمراض التي يسببها الجو أو الطعام أو ظروفُ العمل. من المعقولِ لنا أنْ نأملَ أيضًا بأنّ كل الأمراضِ الأُخرى ربما سوف تزول هي الأُخرى عندما نعرفُ أسبابَها الجذرية."
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"إنّ الممارسات الطبية التي سوف تصير أكثر فعّاليةً مع تطور الفِكر والنظام الإجتماعي، ستؤدي في النهاية إلى القضاء على الأمراض المُعدية والوراثية والأمراض التي يسببها الجو أو الطعام أو ظروفُ العمل. من المعقولِ لنا أنْ نأملَ أيضًا بأنّ كل الأمراضِ الأُخرى ربما…
It's an irony of human progress that whenever we believe we are about to solve all existing problems, new problems arise. This is because new knowledge entails new questions and inquiries. New technology creates new needs and new problems.
Regarding tech, you can think of it this way:
Since the efficiency of any real-life machine is always less than 100%¹, this means that there's always a certain level of inefficiency. Therefore, there are always new problems to be solved with every new technology.
¹machines lose energy via friction, so their output is always less than their input.
Since the efficiency of any real-life machine is always less than 100%¹, this means that there's always a certain level of inefficiency. Therefore, there are always new problems to be solved with every new technology.
¹machines lose energy via friction, so their output is always less than their input.