Sound philosophy, particularly metaphysics, is missing from our thinking today in the West. Science rules. The problem with scientism is that it only presents half the picture—the particulars without the overall context. We are a society of brute facts and data. The issue with that is nobody knows how to interpret these facts in light […]
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92. Philosophy in the Age of Scientism
I see Western Civilization as two distinct ages, the of philosophy and age of empirical science. The age of philosophy, starting with the Greeks, spanned from the 6th century B.C. until the birth of Modernism in the 16th century. The age of Empiricism, spanning until the present, began in 1543 with the Copernican Revolution. The […]