The Deconstruction of the Logos…
The Dark Age of the early 21st Century
“American universities were once the envy of the world, as lively academies of intellectual debate and devoted to the pursuit of knowledge are now factories of indoctrination. Their law, medical, engineering, and business schools have also been transformed into political instruments that advance the “Party Line””…
— James E Fanell and Bradley A Thayer
“The process that results in the production of knowledge in textbooks is flawed, because the methodology employed by intellectuals is not sufficiently rigorous to generate high-quality ideas. The epistemic standards of the 20th century were not high enough to overcome social, psychological, and political entropy. Our academy has failed”…
— Steve Patterson, Our Present Dark Age, Part 1
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“Uniquely, humans can create imaginary symbolic realities, producing a common bias, the ‘nominalist fallacy’ when mere words are mistaken for reality. Entire verbal edifices such as psychoanalysis or Marxism have falsely claimed scientific status without sound empirical basis, as the philosopher Karl Popper showed”…
— Tribal delusion in academia: the treason of the intellectuals?
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“ We are living in a historical period. The first great reform dates back to the early 19th century when modern Universities introduced scientific disciplines. Looking back, we realise that these disciplines enabled great progress, yet they limit knowledge because they are separated from each other. And this separation prevents us from addressing fundamental global problems, not just those of our individual lives but those of our lives as citizens and as human beings on this planet. It should reflect on the fact that it supplies knowledge, but it doesn’t supply — not even at Universities — a reflection on what knowledge is, in other words, the risks of error and illusion which always exist. We can recognise the errors and illusions of the past, but obviously, immersed in the present, we don’t have the capacity to detect them. Why do we have this problem? Because all knowledge is a translation of reality though one’s perception, language, ideas and theories ”…
— Edgar Morin: Seven Complex Lessons in Education
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The Logos reflects the remarkable sacred capacity of Human Being’s to bring an intelligibility and understanding to the nature of Reality through the Universality of Reason (Kant) and Univocity of Being (Duns Scotus).
An idea that is at the very core of the development of Western Civilisation’s intellectual thought and reflect’s the relationship between the Conscious Self, the Natural World and God (Thomism Philosophy) — a Divine Order of Things.
“ “Real” is a word invented in the thirteenth century to signify having Properties, i.e. characters sufficing to identify their subject, and possessing these whether they be anywise attributed to it by any single man or group of men, or not”…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
An understanding that is anchored in universal and eternal truths, properties of an independent objective Reality (i.e. a Realism) and Man’s participation in Reality.
“ European civilisation rose on the principle of a World of universal and eternal truths, in which all men participate — on the principle of the Logos, in other words”…
— Augusto del Noce
So what happen’s to the Logos when the core philosophical ideas of Modernity & Post-Modernity increasingly attempt to decouple from this symbiotic relationship and re-orientate Society towards a Primacy of Human Consciousness (e.g. Cartesianism, Nominalism, Positivism, Nietzschean Perspectivism, Relativism) & a Primacy of Man (e.g. Marxism, Modern Gnosticism, Trans Humanism)?
Does the attempt to deconstruct the Logos [ LINK ] [ LINK ] reflect a new Dark Age?
“Our present dark age encompasses all domains, from philosophy to political theory, to biology, statistics, psychology, medicine, physics, and even the sacred domain of mathematics. Low-quality ideas have become common knowledge, situated within fuzzy paradigms. Innumerable ideas which are assumed to be rigorous are often embarrassingly wrong and utilize concepts that an intelligent teenager could recognize as dubious”…
— Steve Patterson, Our Present Dark Age, Part 1
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“Postmodernism rejects truth and common sense”…
— Robert Curry
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Note: — Cartesian Philosophy was certain of Human Consciousness and Cognition (i.e. Descartes — “I think, therefore I am” ) and how ideas & concepts and systems of logic provided the abstract tools of the human mind, however, it was less clear has to how these ideas and concepts reflected an external Reality if they are produced within ourselves?
“A category mistake, a category error, categorical mistake, or mistake of a category is a semantic or ontological error in which things belonging to a particular category are presented as if they belong to a different category or, alternatively, a property is ascribed to a thing that could not possibly have that property” …
Note: Are the following examples of Cartesianism that increasingly resulted in ontological philosophical errors and category mistakes?
Refer — Are Cells really machines? [ LINK ]
Refer — Are Humans really programmable software? [ LINK ]
Refer — Is your Mind really a mechanical machine? [ LINK ] or a Computer? [ LINK ] [LINK]
Refer — Is the Natural World really a mechanical machine? [ LINK ]
Refer — Is the Human Body really a mechanical machine? [ LINK ]
Refer — Can Intelligence really be Artificial? [ LINK ]
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