THE ESSENTIAL CONNECTION BETWEEN MODERN SCIENCE AND UTOPIAN SOCIALISM

• Authors: Peter A. Redpath
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The chief aim of this paper is to demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt how, through an essential misunderstanding of the nature of philosophy, and science, over the past several centuries, the prevailing Western tendency to reduce the whole of science to mathematical physics unwittingly generated utopian socialism as a political substitute for metaphysics. In short, being unable speculatively, philosophically, and metaphysically to justify this reduction, some Western intellectuals re-conceived the natures of philosophy, science, and metaphysics as increasingly enlightened, historical and political forms of the evolution of human consciousness toward creation of systematic science, a science of clear and distinct ideas. In the process they unwittingly wound up reducing contemporary philosophy and Western higher education largely into tools of utopian socialist political propaganda.

Keywords

EN

agent intellect; ancient; artist; colleges; creative free spirit; creator; destroy; explanation; false; fairy tale; force; freedom; general will; God; great idea; history; humanities; idea; illumine; imagination; intellect; light; literature; meditation; metaphysics; modern science; modern socialism; morality; nature; philosopher; philosophy; positivism; propaganda; psychology; pure reason; reality; reason; science; scientific; scientist; seeker; selfcreator; sight; social science; social system; socialism; sophistry; speculative; surrealism; system; theology; tolerance; totalitarianism; truth; universal methodic doubt; universities; utopian socialism; Vienna Circle; violence; violent; virtue; West; will; wisdom

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 203-220

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Peter A. Redpath

• Adler–Aquinas Institute, Manitou Springs, CO, USA

Identifiers

ISSN

2300-0066