Instruments of peace are things of beauty and of art. Weapons of war are products of technology and science.
I t seems to mean that art is the way to
peace, science the road to destruction. Quite true. Many countries have laid waste with guns, missiles , bombs , while Rizal, Luna , Gandhi and others have proven that painting, literature-the arts- are peaceful means by which we can conquer people’s minds. The intellectual human race, in its desire for progress, has dared Mother Nature and she is on revenge; the servants of arts have tried and succeeded in “concretizing” our most impossible dreams in the obra maestros. Through science, we have even the peace of the conscience. We have killed our fellow through abortion and the lethal injection. Worse we have created people who do not even have conscience. Just consider the inhumanity of the crimes drug addicts commit. On the other hand, the arts have also contributed to the increasing rate of crimes in the world, but more because of science. Works depicting the beauty ant the nature of emotion of man and woman are not the degree of privacy they need so they may be called truly art and nit just nude exposition. Thanks to privacy, which make available those masterpieces to those who cannot appreciate them.
But it’s not really science which is bad, is it? In fact, science presents peace as order and stability wherein in each unit of the universe behaves according to the unwritten, unchangeable natural law. The least diversion from natural law may result in very great chaos.
It’s we, humans, who intervene with the order of nature to satisfy our hunger for progress. It’s we who are too reckless in using science and technology just to make ourselves better. “The world is enough for everyone’s need, but not for anyone’s need”, as Gandhi put it. To these, we may add, science and arts must go together. For what good is the arts if there would be no progress in this miserable world? Can we just continue singing and dancing while poverty and crime remain realities? On the other side, the study of arts teaches values. When values are gone, there is an important question: what good is science, if there would be no one to use its principles for the betterment of humankind. Science is not for people of greed but for people or service.So, we may therefore conclude that role of science in our world depends on us who made it exist and for whom it exists. We can make it to become either beneficial innovator
I t seems to mean that art is the way to
peace, science the road to destruction. Quite true. Many countries have laid waste with guns, missiles , bombs , while Rizal, Luna , Gandhi and others have proven that painting, literature-the arts- are peaceful means by which we can conquer people’s minds. The intellectual human race, in its desire for progress, has dared Mother Nature and she is on revenge; the servants of arts have tried and succeeded in “concretizing” our most impossible dreams in the obra maestros. Through science, we have even the peace of the conscience. We have killed our fellow through abortion and the lethal injection. Worse we have created people who do not even have conscience. Just consider the inhumanity of the crimes drug addicts commit. On the other hand, the arts have also contributed to the increasing rate of crimes in the world, but more because of science. Works depicting the beauty ant the nature of emotion of man and woman are not the degree of privacy they need so they may be called truly art and nit just nude exposition. Thanks to privacy, which make available those masterpieces to those who cannot appreciate them.But it’s not really science which is bad, is it? In fact, science presents peace as order and stability wherein in each unit of the universe behaves according to the unwritten, unchangeable natural law. The least diversion from natural law may result in very great chaos.
It’s we, humans, who intervene with the order of nature to satisfy our hunger for progress. It’s we who are too reckless in using science and technology just to make ourselves better. “The world is enough for everyone’s need, but not for anyone’s need”, as Gandhi put it. To these, we may add, science and arts must go together. For what good is the arts if there would be no progress in this miserable world? Can we just continue singing and dancing while poverty and crime remain realities? On the other side, the study of arts teaches values. When values are gone, there is an important question: what good is science, if there would be no one to use its principles for the betterment of humankind. Science is not for people of greed but for people or service.So, we may therefore conclude that role of science in our world depends on us who made it exist and for whom it exists. We can make it to become either beneficial innovator
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