Vorlage:1963 Rezensionen Die Macht

• [1963-000] [Italienisch] Rezension zu: Guardini, Il potere, in: Italian Books and Periodicals, 6, 1963, S. 816 [neu aufgenommen] – [Rezension] - https://books.google.de/books?id=Vb7NAAAAMAAJ
  • S. 816: „This analysis of power which Guardini has carried out in the name of modern man (more than ever involved in the conflict between technique and knowledge, politics and morals) is in particular related to his thoughts on the significance and the object of history. The mod- ern period, writes Guardini, is characterized by the prodigous development in technique, or in other words in a typical form of power that consists in the affirmation of man's dominance over nature. Modern science and thought have however debated this development with the idea of the separation between science and practice, knowledge and technique. This idea of the neutrality of technique that is, the modern form of power is, in the author's view, unacceptable both on the basis of its theoretical presuppositions and on its practical implications. Technique itself has, in fact, reached the stage of threatening the very survival of man and his civilization, as a result of which the nineteenth century idea of progress, where this is identified with mere development of technique itself, would appear to be in a state of crisis. This alarming phenomenon, says Guardini, gives the lie to the presuppositions of modern secularism and poses again the question of the insertion of power into the picture of a religious vision of the human story and the destination of man. After reaffirming he theological bases of power, attributed to man by the Creator, he says that our period must be characterized by a renewed undertaking to restore a human dimension and meaning to power so that it shall become the expression of humanity renewed through the values of humility and charity. Cosmic Undertakings).“