Correction to: A Divided World in Entropy

Society, Mar 2018

Solomon Benatar

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Correction to: A Divided World in Entropy

Society Correction to: A Divided World in Entropy Solomon Benatar 0 1 Solomon Benatar 0 1 0 Joint Centre for Bioethics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto , 155 College Street, Toronto , Canada 1 Bioethics Centre, University of Cape Town, Room L51 Old Groote Schuur Hospital , Hospital Road, Observatory, 7925 Cape Town , South Africa 1. In the paragraph at the top of page 6 the words (mathematical calculation of the most economical means to ends, and loss of the sense of sacredness), should be bracketed as shown below and the quotation marks around the words total freedom for the wolves meant death for the lambs should be removed. - The corrections for four minor errors are shown below. The corrected version should be as follows: Charles Taylor described individualism, the primacy of instrumental reason (mathematical calculation of the most economical means to ends, and loss of the sense of sacredness), together with restriction of choices by the politics of a technical industrial society, as the three malaises of modernity.36 Isaiah Berlin articulated concern that total freedom for the wolves meant death for the lambs,37 while Johan Galtung and Immanuel Wallerstein saw social failures rooted in socially constructed aberrations.38 2. Reference 49 is incorrectly labelled 0 3. Acknowledgements should read I am grateful …. 4. The quote on the first page should read: Part of the globe is inhabited by Hegel’s and Fukuyama’s Last Man, healthy, well fed, and pampered by technology. The other, larger, part is inhabited by Hobbes’s First Man, condemned to a life that is “poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Robert Kaplan 1994.1 (...truncated)


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Solomon Benatar. Correction to: A Divided World in Entropy, Society, 2018, pp. 218-218, Volume 55, Issue 2, DOI: 10.1007/s12115-018-0241-2