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- čas přidán 6. 07. 2022
- Scott and Karl finish their discussion of the first novel in Isaac Asimov’s classic science-fiction masterpiece, Foundation.
The novel is set in the future, when the world is barely remembered, and humans have colonized the galaxy. While this series helped to redefine the science-fiction genre, the duo takes issue with the ways this make-believe society responds to the problems Asimov lays out and the use of mathematics and probability to predict the future. As Karl points out, "Scientific progress as a moral good makes no sense."
Tune in to hear Part Two of Scott and Karl's conversation. Brought to you by onlinegreatbooks.com.
A provocative discussion.
I too read a great deal of this sort of genera fiction when I was younger. I love how early sci-fi authors contemplated scientific theory and philosophical ideals in their stories, however successful they might have been at it. I was not reading the Great Books then, so they were my entry into the Great Conversation then, I suppose. Do modern genera authors do the same? I don't know; I don't read much of it anymore. I was derailed by fantasy lit due to D&D. These days I believe that was a waste of time, aside from Tolkien, whose work I still love.
As I age, I am ever more interested in History and the Classics. There's more "meat" in them. And time is short now, I realize. I had best spend my time more constructively in the time I have remaining.
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