Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility. Simon Blackburn
Cognitivism bridges the chasm between what the writer C. P. Snow has called the "two cultures" - the widening gap between the world view of the scientist and the humanist. The Caltech philosopher W. T. Jones has called this the crisis of contemporary culture. Roger Wolcott Sperry
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old. Rowan Williams
Instead of kids just hearing about beads and baskets and fringe, and about what 'was' and 'were,' we present Native American culture as a living contemporary culture. Buffy Sainte-Marie
The relativism which is not willing to speak about truth but only about ‘what is true for me' is an evasion of the serious business of living. It is the mark of a tragic loss of nerve in our contemporary culture. It is a preliminary symptom of death. Lesslie Newbigin