THE ESSENTIAL CONNECTION BETWEEN MODERN SCIENCE AND UTOPIAN SOCIALISM
THE ESSENTIAL CONNECTION BETWEEN MODERN SCIENCE AND UTOPIAN SOCIALISM
Author(s): Peter A. RedpathSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: International Étienne Gilson Society
Keywords: agent intellect; ancient; artist; colleges; creative free spirit; creator; destroy; explanation; false; fairy tale; force; freedom; general will; God; great idea; history; humanities; idea; illumine; imagination; intellect; light; Literature; meditation;
Summary/Abstract: The chief aim of this paper is to demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt how, through an essential misunderstanding of the nature of philosophy, and science, over the past several centuries, the prevailing Western tendency to reduce the whole of science to mathematical physics unwittingly generated utopian socialism as a political substitute for metaphysics. In short, being unable speculatively, philosophically, and metaphysically to justify this reduction, some Western intellectuals re-conceived the natures of philosophy, science, and metaphysics as increasingly enlightened, historical and political forms of the evolution of human consciousness toward creation of systematic science, a science of clear and distinct ideas. In the process they unwittingly wound up reducing contemporary philosophy and Western higher education largely into tools of utopian socialist political propaganda.
Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
- Issue Year: 2014
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 203-220
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English