The public intelectual and the legitimation crisis in the digital era: from social criticism to personal convictions
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2019
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Gomilko, Olga
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Abstract
The paper is dedicated to research on public intellectual in the
context of the legitimation crisis and technological revolution. It is
maintained that the public activity of the scientist in the digital era has
to focus on self-improvement of a human being. Without overcoming
the aggressive human nature it would be barely possible to create a
just society. One of the key tasks of public intellectual is to convince
people of the need of self-improvement, which will enhance their
tolerance and empathy. The digital age strengthens the responsibility
of human beings and requires from them complex rational skills and
abilities, as in all likelihood they will have to face not class enemies,
but the products of their activity, i.e. the artificial intelligence and
other new technologies. The type of interaction between humans and
machines will decide the future of society. Realization of resources of
human thinking implies actualization of not only scientific activity but
also of other types and forms of rationality. Here is why the public
task of the modern scientist is to legitimize them in the public domain.
To extend the field of rationality means extending the area of human
freedom. This will accordingly imply encouraging self-improvement
of human life. The publicity of the scientist in the today’s context
means not so leaving the boundaries of academic walls as the
formation of a new public dimension within their limits. At issue is
the strengthening of the public dimension of education and science as
crucial factors in legitimation of the values of the modern nation state.
The university plays an especially important role in this process.
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public intellectual, legitimation crisis, human nature, book chapter
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Gomilko O. The public intelectual and the legitimation crisis in the digital era: from social criticism to personal convictions / Gomilko O. Yе. // Philosophical and methodological challenges of the study of modern society : collective monograph / T. V. Andrushchenko, Z. M. Atamaniuk, Ye. R. Borinshtein [et al.]. - Lviv-Toruń : Liha-Pres, 2019. - Chapter 5. - P. 87-108.