Spe Salvi



Spe Salvi

Introduction

The article is written by Jim Wishloff, and has brought a few issues of the business world into limelight. During the past four centuries, a novel social order which is new in the history of human society has emerged. Francis Bacon's perspective on the role which science must play in human affairs can be utilized to evaluate the technological civilization's sustainability. The author in this article has reviewed some of Bacon's perspectives and in that he also reviewed the features of the technological society which has enclosed our lives, along with the benefits which the society offers. In addition to this, the author has also reviewed Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical Spe Salvi, the book considered as Christian Hope and a way to get back to the fundamentals of business ethics.

The author has discussed various issues which are arising in the human society. For the sake of brevity, we will discuss few of these issues here.

The author writes that environmental distress and its symptoms are very evident, now a days. These are too many that, Ban Ki-Moon, the U.N Secretary General has put people across the globe, on a path to obliviousness. This when combined with the cultural and economic instability prevailing throughout the world, makes it more evident and makes people to acknowledge that wrecking is hasting upon the world. Keeping this thing in mind a few questions arise; firstly, is there any way through which we can elevate ourselves such as by flapping our wings or steering a little tougher? And secondly, is the craft of our civilization sound aerodynamically or is it leading us on the top of rocks? To answer these questions a philosophy from which the current social order of the world originated and which now upholds it needs to be evaluated. The ...