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Full Idea
One of the problems with the scientific worldview is that it leads human beings to have an overwhelmingly theoretical relationship to the world.
Gist of Idea
Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life
Source
Simon Critchley (Impossible Objects: interviews [2012], 2)
Book Ref
Critchley,Simon: 'Impossible Objects: interviews' [Politty 2012], p.44
A Reaction
Critchley is defending phenomenology, but this also supports its cousin, existentialism. I keep meeting bright elderly men who have immersed themselves in the study of science, and they seem very remote from the humanist culture I love.
Related Idea
Idea 20448 Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life [Critchley]
| 20446 | Philosophy begins in disappointment, notably in religion and politics [Critchley] |
| 20449 | Science gives us an excessively theoretical view of life [Critchley] |
| 20448 | Phenomenology uncovers and redescribes the pre-theoretical layer of life [Critchley] |
| 20447 | The problems is not justifying ethics, but motivating it. Why should a self seek its good? [Critchley] |
| 20450 | The state, law, bureaucracy and capital are limitations on life, so I prefer federalist anarchism [Critchley] |
| 20451 | Belief that humans are wicked leads to authoritarian politics [Critchley] |
| 20452 | Anarchism used to be libertarian (especially for sexuality), but now concerns responsibility [Critchley] |
| 20454 | Wallace Stevens is the greatest philosophical poet of the twentieth century in English [Critchley] |
| 20455 | Philosophy really got started as the rival mode of discourse to tragedy [Critchley] |
| 20456 | Interesting art is always organised around ethical demands [Critchley] |