The Age of the World Picture
The document discusses the essence of modern science, the transformation of the world into a picture, the subjectivity of man as a subject, and the interplay between subjectivism and objectivism.
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nowhere.” It is the conviction that in order to describe the world accurately and empirically, we must put aside res cogitans—the subjective, immediate way in which we experience the world in our minds—and limit ourselves to res extensa, the objective, mathematical language of physical facts. Without these distinctions, it’s difficult to imagine th
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Galileo teaches us that the truth of the world is beyond human sense perception. In other words, the truth of the world is inhuman. Increasingly, what this means is that we live in a world that we don’t understand. And here, we finally return to Hannah Arendt’s main worry about science. For Arendt, what is decisive about modern science is that it s... See more
Human Being in an Inhuman Age
Einstein says, what characterizes the modern age is optimization of means, yet confusion of goals.