Cosmos and Transcendence: Breaking Through the Barrier of Scientistic Belief
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.29 (528 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597310840 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 180 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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This is a serious work which will repay close attention." -- Robert P. It is also most fascinating reading, and would be a welcome addition to any library." -- Harold Hughesdon, The Wanderer"Wolfgang Smith is as important a thinker as our times boast." -- Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions"Having traced the degeneration of the mechanistic outlook into subjectivism and pseudoscience, Dr. Rooney, Homiletic & Pastoral Review"We are astounded to see the revival of philosophical doctrines long thought dead in a scientific context. Smith concludes his book with a profound reflection on the fall of man and its implications for the pursuit of knowledge. This book will repay st
Kenneth L. Miner said Review of Wolfgang Smith, _Cosmos and Transcendence_. Review of Wolfgang Smith, _Cosmos and Transcendence_This is a critique of scientism, which might be defined as the belief that only the investigational methods used in the natural sciences can lead to genuine knowledge. The author approaches the topic ultimately from the standpoint of classical Chr. A Customer said A Powerful Indictment of Post-Modernist Thinking. First he analyzes what happened that caused the quagmire of post-modernist thinking. Rene Descartes took some time away from the noise of his life and spent some time on retreat to figure out the "mystery" of existence. After many hours of hard thinking, and much wasted ink, he came to what he cons. James Bell said Read this first. This is the first book by Wolfgang Smith, written in 198Read this first James Bell This is the first book by Wolfgang Smith, written in 1984 when he was a tenured Professor of Mathematics at Oregon State University.It is brilliant.He uses sacred doctrines and Aristotelian philosophy to demolish Descartes, Newton, Freud, and Jung. His chapter on Karl Jung is especially insightful.. when he was a tenured Professor of Mathematics at Oregon State University.It is brilliant.He uses sacred doctrines and Aristotelian philosophy to demolish Descartes, Newton, Freud, and Jung. His chapter on Karl Jung is especially insightful.
He has been especially concerned to unmask conceptions of a scientistic kind widely accepted today as scientific truths. Wolfgang Smith graduated from Cornell University at age eighteen with majors in physics, philosophy, and mathematics. Smith has published three previous books and many articles dealing with foundational and interdisciplinary problems. in m
And herein lies the true worth of this remarkable treatise: having broken the grip of scientistic presuppositions, the author succeeds admirably in bringing to view great truths that had long been obscured.. Its primary contribution is to recover and reaffirm the deep metaphysical and religious insights that have come down to us through the teachings of Christianity. In the present work, Wolfgang Smith presents an insider's critique of the scientific world-view based upon the sharp but often overlooked distinction between scientific truth and scientistic faith. With elegance and clarity he demonstrates that major tenets promulgated in the name of Science are not in fact scientific truths but rather scientistic speculations - for which there is no evidence at all. Step by step the reader is led to the astonishing realization that the specifically 'modern' world is based intellectually upon nothing more substantial than a syndrome of Promethean myths. But this is only half of what the book accomplishes