“The thinking history of man spans a 2500 year duration from the time of the idealist Greeks until the last quarter of the nineteenth century. With the rise of a Kantian epistemology limited to the abstraction of sense perception alone came the premature culmination of that human endeavor dedicated to making a coherent world. It has been the dedicated task of Philosophy over this 2500 year period to provide the thought-based developments that have served to define the world of physical sensations in correspondence to attending forms of reason. As a gradual outcome of this enterprise activity of Philosophy, the power to cognize a world with three degrees of efficient causation has occurred. This, in turn, has enabled three degrees of effective representation to be realized in the forms commonly known as materialism. Materialism has arisen out of the progressive activities of Philosophy to provide a coherent world-view based on the succeeding developments of those forms of reasoning comprised of deduction, induction, and reduction, from the time of the Greeks until the last measure of German Idealism was realized at the height of the nineteenth century.
Natural science, and its activities of theoretical and practical materialism, owes everything to Philosophy and its evolution of the faculty of thinking. Since the last quarter of the nineteenth century it has been the task of science to provide a coherent world-view based on the analysis and description of natural phenomena. This power of cognition is owed, in its entirety, to the work of philosophers who sought to think into their world of experience, thus forming the ability to abstract, or conceptualize the perceived experience. Unfortunately, science upon attaining the power to reduce phenomenal experience to the degree sufficient for analysis and description, declared its own sovereignty over all others, including Philosophy.”
Thus, *True Science* has always been about the organized, systematic, and functional spiritual evolution of humanity. For example, if we take natural science today, which proffers itself as superior to philosophy as an art formation only, and then trace back through time, we come to an earlier era in which thinking began. This was the Greek epoch in which deductive reasoning first appeared out of the manifold of the Elemental World. Water, Air, Fire, Earth. They each had an earthly representative: Thales. Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Democritus. They all helped form the world in which calculation could begin, i.e., measure, weight, number.
Yet, if we even take Philosophy further back in time, say to the time of the Egyptians, it was all about Psychology. It was all about the existence of Higher Mind, and what flowed through this epoch as the last measure of an ancient clairvoyant faculty of perception. The whole mystery of the Sphinx, and the Pyramids is conveyed with a mind that could conceive and make matter into a fluid entity, as a labor-saving device. Today, we do the actual labor, and speculate how the Pyramids were built. Ask a scientist, and you'll get a scientific explanation based on abstract materialism. Ask a philosopher and there is always hope you'll get an artistic answer that expresses a more flexible, mobile, and plastic form of thinking. This is the thinking of the future.
I love this Quote: “Philosophical theories are much more like good stories than scientific explanations.”
agreed, but would like to include the corollary that scientific theories are often less like bad stories than people think, as I tried to argue.
“The thinking history of man spans a 2500 year duration from the time of the idealist Greeks until the last quarter of the nineteenth century. With the rise of a Kantian epistemology limited to the abstraction of sense perception alone came the premature culmination of that human endeavor dedicated to making a coherent world. It has been the dedicated task of Philosophy over this 2500 year period to provide the thought-based developments that have served to define the world of physical sensations in correspondence to attending forms of reason. As a gradual outcome of this enterprise activity of Philosophy, the power to cognize a world with three degrees of efficient causation has occurred. This, in turn, has enabled three degrees of effective representation to be realized in the forms commonly known as materialism. Materialism has arisen out of the progressive activities of Philosophy to provide a coherent world-view based on the succeeding developments of those forms of reasoning comprised of deduction, induction, and reduction, from the time of the Greeks until the last measure of German Idealism was realized at the height of the nineteenth century.
Natural science, and its activities of theoretical and practical materialism, owes everything to Philosophy and its evolution of the faculty of thinking. Since the last quarter of the nineteenth century it has been the task of science to provide a coherent world-view based on the analysis and description of natural phenomena. This power of cognition is owed, in its entirety, to the work of philosophers who sought to think into their world of experience, thus forming the ability to abstract, or conceptualize the perceived experience. Unfortunately, science upon attaining the power to reduce phenomenal experience to the degree sufficient for analysis and description, declared its own sovereignty over all others, including Philosophy.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/spiritlogic/p/philosophys-forgotten-charter?r=2kbdzg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Thus, *True Science* has always been about the organized, systematic, and functional spiritual evolution of humanity. For example, if we take natural science today, which proffers itself as superior to philosophy as an art formation only, and then trace back through time, we come to an earlier era in which thinking began. This was the Greek epoch in which deductive reasoning first appeared out of the manifold of the Elemental World. Water, Air, Fire, Earth. They each had an earthly representative: Thales. Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Democritus. They all helped form the world in which calculation could begin, i.e., measure, weight, number.
Yet, if we even take Philosophy further back in time, say to the time of the Egyptians, it was all about Psychology. It was all about the existence of Higher Mind, and what flowed through this epoch as the last measure of an ancient clairvoyant faculty of perception. The whole mystery of the Sphinx, and the Pyramids is conveyed with a mind that could conceive and make matter into a fluid entity, as a labor-saving device. Today, we do the actual labor, and speculate how the Pyramids were built. Ask a scientist, and you'll get a scientific explanation based on abstract materialism. Ask a philosopher and there is always hope you'll get an artistic answer that expresses a more flexible, mobile, and plastic form of thinking. This is the thinking of the future.