Heĭismissed conventional ethics as inferior to a morality based upon utility andĪgreeableness, but observed that our notions of self were illusory. Requiring a leap of faith before it could be successfully employed. Reason, but observed that reason itself was severely limited as a tool, He dismissed tradition as an inferior means of understanding the world to Is man’s tendency to presume qualities of God, who was essentially Religious superstitions as unfounded, but drew a line at God saying the problem The influential Enlightenment philosopherĭavid Hume looked deeply into the world through an empirical lens. If humanity did not accept the attempts of tyrannical authority figures to place limits on what was allowable thought under religious guises, I am hopeful it can resist any attempt by tyrannical authority figures to achieve the same end under scientific guises. Testable, or indeed in any way other than the ways we individually chose. I trust scientists to conduct experiments or develop engineering solutions to problems, but there the implicit expertise ends.Ĭulture, art, narrative, ethics and imagination all become stunted if one attempts to bound them at the edge of the The problem with this is that the domain of science is the empirical,īut the domain of life and experience extends far beyond what may be tested. Newspapers turn to scientists to provide justifications or explanations as an example. Scientists know what’s really going on…” One only has to look at the way The underlying assumption seems to be that “the Indeed, many people now look to scientists in much the same way they used to look at priests – as a source ofĪuthoritative interpretation.
Provided canonical opinions for the masses, now scientific authorities Overthrowing of institutions that exceeded their domain now seems turning fullĬircle: now the revolutionary threatens to become the oppressor. Like Orwell’s Animal Farm, what began as a noble Presumptive teleology, the multiverse of quantum timelines and the mythology of To the establishment of so many scientific superstitions, such as Many religious superstitions, it could not have anticipated that it would lead If the Enlightenment managed to put pay to The momentum is still pushing in this direction – and arguably no longer to our The work of theĮnlightenment in shifting our focus is long since concluded, but unfortunately Resisted the authority of religious traditions. TheĮnlightenment pushed against established ways of thinking, and in particular Scientific exploration as a new way of coming to grips with the world. To get to the bottom of this cryptic nonsense, let us cast our minds back in time a few hundred years to the culturalĬircumstances that existed at what has been dubbed the dawn of theĪssertion of reason as a superior tool to tradition, and from the 18 thĬentury onwards we consequently saw the rise of philosophical debate and Surely no-one believes inĬthulhu, except perhaps for their own amusement? So why bother to ask that we Where nothing but death or madness await us all. It symbolises a stark and meaningless universe, Something so immense and terrible that you are nothing to it but an insigificant speck beneath its tentacles. To gaze upon it is toīathe in madness, and to encounter it is to meet death at the casual hands of That moves as if it were a mountain stumbling forward.
Gigantic cosmic horror, that caricatures a human, an octopus and a dragon, and Lovecraft – an indescribably grotesque and
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