Perspicuo
Veteran Member
Philosophy is just part of the ongoing human effort, conspicuously along with literature, to think, create meaning and even a bit of reverie.
Philosophical thought sometimes gets in the way of science, but no less than all human thought gets in the way of science from time to time. In any case, human thinking continuously reforms itself, and has until we got to where we are now, still moving, still correcting and wondering where and how to keep correcting itself.
It would be an act of irrepentant scientism to think science has been the fount of all good. Science did not abolish slavery, give suffrage to women, or devise the checks and balances of electoral democracy. Sience is and should remain the maidservant of humanity and its ideals, not its empress, lest our future is to become the Borg.
Philosophons enfants de la Patrie!
Philosophical thought sometimes gets in the way of science, but no less than all human thought gets in the way of science from time to time. In any case, human thinking continuously reforms itself, and has until we got to where we are now, still moving, still correcting and wondering where and how to keep correcting itself.
It would be an act of irrepentant scientism to think science has been the fount of all good. Science did not abolish slavery, give suffrage to women, or devise the checks and balances of electoral democracy. Sience is and should remain the maidservant of humanity and its ideals, not its empress, lest our future is to become the Borg.
Philosophons enfants de la Patrie!