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171 sats \ 2 replies \ @freetx 28 Jun \ on: ”Let me tell you what’s going on” - My take on the culture war as of today culture
Is the idea that the rise of science has led to "scienceism", and thus led to a lack of objective value?
Really articulating this is something found at least around the perspectives of Nietzsche and Foucault. I've heard this topic discussed as the "limits of rationality." I am not such a strong abstract thinker to definitively make conclusions such as "scienceism," but here are some quotes from my reading yesterday:
What is this Reason that we use? What are its historical effects? What are its limits, and what are its dangers? How can we exist as rational beings, fortunately committed to practicing a rationality that is unfortunately crisscrossed by intrinsic dangers? (...) In addition, if it is extremely dangerous to say that Reason is the enemy that should be eliminated, it is just as dangerous to say that any critical questioning of this rationality risks sending us into irrationality.
[W]hat interests me more is to focus on what the Greeks called the techne, that is to say, a practical rationality governed by a conscious goal.
Both from "Space, Knowledge, and Power" from The Foucault Reader.
Personally, the best shorthand way that I have come to think about this topic from a shared sociocultural perspective is that certain forms of knowledge-progress are like a fire, and here we are reconciling scientific progress as a fire - fire is very powerful, but it burns us at times.
The best shorthand way that I have come to think about this topic from a deeply personal perspective are the limits applying discipline on yourself in the pursuit of an ideal (self-domination toward a goal) - and all the parts of yourself that may be lost along the way in the conception and pursuit of a singular, idealized goal.
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God is dead ☠️
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