What is true? It is perhaps the most important question, because what we believe to be true shapes how we live, our culture, our views on religion and spirituality, our politics, and the structure of our society. Everything is downstream from truth. The Enlightenment reshaped the way society viewed truth in the Western world by shifting the means of determining what is true to science and reason away from tradition and religion. In particular, observations by the senses, that is, what can be seen, heard, touched, or measured is regarded as the starting point for learning what is true. The hope is that careful and systematic study by observation and experimentation, that is, science, humanity can understand the laws that govern anything whether it be the physics of the universe, the nature of the human mind, or society. The modern worldview is based on this premise: that truth is discovered and best understood by science and reason. However despite its achievements, there are some significant limitations both science and reason which in-turn significantly undermines the modern worldview. The limitations and other negative consequences will be explored in other essays, but first the modern worldview needs to be outlined, defined, and given credit where it is due.
What is a woman? Your truth, my truth….. 🤡 The Ground is giving way and the centre can not hold. I was fascinated to hear a Muslim Scholar recently describing the war waged by what he termed the ‘AntiChrist’ as an epistemological one. Anti Logos. Would it be fair to say that Constitutional Freedoms & protections can not function in a society which rejects Logos?
Fascinating and well laid out article. Gonna go through your back catalogue now
What is a woman? Your truth, my truth….. 🤡 The Ground is giving way and the centre can not hold. I was fascinated to hear a Muslim Scholar recently describing the war waged by what he termed the ‘AntiChrist’ as an epistemological one. Anti Logos. Would it be fair to say that Constitutional Freedoms & protections can not function in a society which rejects Logos?