ABSTRACT
Reflecting and reinforcing the fragmentation of the world is the fragmentation of the knowledge system produced by the modern conception of science. The Western imperial thrust stimulated by modern technology and its accompanying economic expansion, as well as by a psychological urge born of a conviction of racial superiority was supported and spurred on by the power balance in Europe. The crisis that faces modern man is a crisis wrought by science and technology taking a particular direction under the impact of the age of positivism. The crux of the foregoing overview of specificities of the emerging global problematique can be stated more simply: the twin basic dimensions of human prospects are survival and transformation or, to put it in conventional language, peace and development, and these two dimensions are inextricably intertwined. The threats to human survival and peace are as ominous and brutalizing in the latter settings as in the international one.
