Abstract

ZAVALETA MERCADO, Ronanth. The last fifty years: time of knowledge and violence. Rev Cien Cult [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.32, pp.123-137. ISSN 2077-3323.

This article is the first of three essays where the achievements in the natural sciences area is analyzed and compared with those accumulated over the whole human history. In the first two of them some consideration is given to areas of biology-biochemistry and physics, and an analysis is performed on the important contributions reached over the last fifty year, reaching the conclusion that the 20th Century has been indeed, the century of knowledge, specifically in these areas of human knowledge. But, at the same time, this period of time has been one at least contradictory in reference to development at human scale. At the same time when important additions were made to scientific knowledge, the world has assisted to a quasi-continuous state of war that destroyed entire generations of young man. To this purpose huge amounts of wealth have been expended that certainly could have had better uses. This sort of violence has been also exerted on the environment, and even though the damage caused is quite well understood, it was not possible to reach fundamental international agreements aimed at minimizing it. This is analyzed in the third essay, which questions human wisdom in the administration of human knowledge and its long term viability.

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