Epistemology
Backmaybe some more propositions here...
I kinda leaped from science becoming more pragmatic to science being somehow equivalent to technology... I should have fleshed that out a bit more. I think science has a religious side (to know the mind of God) and an irreligious side (to control nature). That science is an offshoot of religion I think all historians of science would agree with. It is not theology, but the founders of the scientific method did not leave God out of their justifications for the method. God played a central role. But back to technology... the desire to control nature motivates much modern day science. I think this is an unfortunate result of the philosophical assumptions underlying the scientific method. The basic problem is the assumption that the knower is separate from the known, that an actual gap exists between observer and observed. It is not so neatly compartmentalized as that: thou art that. Knowing is an activity that brings forth a world, it is not a passive mirroring of an already existing reality.
Channel: Education
Uploaded: January 25, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Author: 0ThouArtThat0
Length: 00:05:56
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Tags: epistemology science technology
Video Comments:
otonanoC (February 1, 2008 at 2:01 am)
The relationship between Mind and Matter is the foremost problem of philosophy. I am suspicious of anyone who acted as if he had solved it, include Descartes and Karl Marx here.
cosmanthony21 (January 30, 2008 at 8:55 am)
spontaneity.
debswildhoney (January 27, 2008 at 1:16 pm)
My grandfather argued advanced technology, including advanced medicine, made us weaker & dependent; less balanced & more disconnected from life. His generation saw more changes in technology than any other before his time - from horseback to rockets, mental calculations to calculators & computers. Grandma would add, "If you don't use it, you loose it".
0ThouArtThat0 (January 27, 2008 at 1:19 pm)
I can relate to his understanding for sure, I feel similar in a lot of ways.
patternsinchaos (January 29, 2008 at 9:34 am)
Some already argue that the machines are taking over. Personally I think it's very naive to think that their existence is a completely conscious act on our part. It can definitely be argued that on the macrocosmic level, we are not calling the shots. On this level we react rather than act, if there is a plan, it doesn't seem to be "ours".
dostoevskyward (January 27, 2008 at 1:49 am)
Florensky believed this concept of knowing, (borrowed from the intuitivist epistemology of Nikolai Lossky), is a form of loving. It is understood as a process of "mutual self-emptying" and results in a living moral communion of persons, each serving for each as both object and subject.
Perhaps, I am quoting this out of context. Perhaps this has no relation. I think it was interesting in regard to this concept of knowing as a form of love.
Perhaps, I am quoting this out of context. Perhaps this has no relation. I think it was interesting in regard to this concept of knowing as a form of love.
0ThouArtThat0 (January 27, 2008 at 8:29 am)
knowing is loving... I like that
dostoevskyward (January 27, 2008 at 1:48 am)
your written words reminded of a quote I once read: "The act of knowing is not only a gnoseological but also an ontological act, not only ideal but also real. Knowing is a real "going" of the knower "out" of himself, or (what is the same thing) a real "going" of what is known "into" the knower, a real unification of the knower and what is known." --Florensky 1914
0ThouArtThat0 (January 26, 2008 at 9:41 pm)
Something medical science really needs to ask itself is this: what is health? It seems now that the main focus is on curing illness. But why not focus more on preventing sickness and maintaining health? Oh, I think I know... that's not where the money is.
Ramitaylor (January 26, 2008 at 11:27 pm)
I agree. Professions seem to have an aversion to thinking through the foundational assumptions of their practice, whether we are talking about doctors, lawyers, historians. Maybe the reasons are cynical, or maybe it is just the accumulated weight of institutional habit.