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Cultural Achievements

Throughout history mankind has a gained cultural achievements which characterize modern life. These achievements have precise origins in history.

We name some of them here.


The ladder of potentialities for progress and emancipation is shown in the following list:

CENTURY LIBERTIES PROTECTING PRINCIPLE CORRESPONDING INSTITUTION
20th Freedom for growth, health Public character of labour (?Perhaps: adult education, decentralization of industry?)
19th Freedom for talent, thought, genius, speech, creativeness to compete Public character of private ideas Copyright, patents, a written constitution
17th Freedom of endowment Public character of wills An independent Judiciary
16th Free choice of profession, no vows for children Public character of education Public schools
13th Freedom of competition between teachers Public character of the sciences Universities
11th Freedom of movement for the men in the professions Public character of civil life (truce of God) Judges of the peace, public prosecution of crime

taken from: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy: Out of Reveolution, p. 32


Kroesen, Ravesteijn: Radical sustainable change: a case for communicative sustainability and civil society as enabling environment for engineering

Oualities engineers have:

Other human qualities, likewise essential to engineering, include


Otto Kroesen: SUCCESSFUL CONTEXTUAL TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND DETERMINANTS OF CULTURE and Een rode draad door de tijd

Tribal Culture Qualities:

Imperial Culture Qualities:

Jewish (OT) Qualities:

Ancient Greek Culture Qualities

Christian / Western Culture Qualities: