Epistemology
1,702 views · Published 25 January 2008 · 5:57 · Indexed 9 October 2026
Channel: Footnotes2Plato · 2008 · Education
maybe 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.
