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The Dangers of Scientism – Part Six

by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
Put in the language of philosophy, this difference between philosophy and the sciences can be expressed in the following terms: philosophy seeks the ultimate explanation, while science is satisfied with the proximate causes of things.

Now as far as the mind is concerned, proximate explanation is really no explanation at all. [...]

Posted 21 November 2008 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § Educational Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Dangers of Scientism – Part Five

by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
All these sciences, in so far as they are sciences, that is, in so far as they possess any explanatory value, presuppose the superior philosophic sciences of logic, cosmology, rational psychology and ethics. And these philosophic sciences, in turn, presuppose ontology or general metaphysics. Ontology is the absolute summit of natural [...]

Posted 20 November 2008 † Sister Maria Philomena, M.I.C.M. § Educational Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , ,