Full Idea
From our modern perspective, the Platonic synthesis of scientific explanation and moral insight lies irrecoverably shattered by the rise of natural science.
Gist of Idea
Modern science has destroyed the Platonic synthesis of scientific explanation and morality
Source
report of David Hume (Treatise of Human Nature [1739]) by Charles Taylor - Sources of the Self §3.2
Book Reference
Taylor,Charles: 'Sources of the Self' [CUP 1992], p.73
A Reaction
Modern attempts to challenge Hume's separation of fact from value have failed, but a return to the Greek perspective presents a plausible alternative.