Blog Marcos L. Mucheroni Filosofia, Noosfera e cibercultura

It is no longer the Copernican and Newtonian models that explain the universe, the center of the galaxy has a black hole, whose laws of operation still challenge astrophysics and even quantum physics, the simple operation by mechanical laws described at the beginning of modern science have already fallen apart, although mechanistic reasoning has a social survival.

Philosophy has already returned to the question of Being and essence, although the majority of dialogues and articles still discuss empiricist science and the idealism of Parmenides (460 BC – 530 BC), according to Popper, he and Xenophanes made a pre-project of modern enlightenment (The World of Parmenides: Essays on Pre-Socratic Enlightenment, Karl Popper), the Renaissance tried to return to Greek originality.

For Popper, both the Critical Science that Aristotle had built, as well as the philosophy of nature and the theory of nature, the great original attempts at cosmology collapsed after Aristotle, and the modern age, starting with Newton, formulates a physics that modifies part of the cosmological vision, But quantum physics and the theory of relativity destroy this model and go beyond the idealist/Enlightenment model of the logic of non-contradiction (Being is and non-being is not), creating a third included (the logic of Stéphane Lupasco and the physics of Barsarab Nicolescu).

They create new paradigms by changing the model of absolute time and space (which is now relative) and understanding quantum states of particles, discovering tunneling (a third state between quantum particles) and wormholes (non-absolute spaces that can open up in the movement of celestial bodies), see the movie Contact from Carl Sagan’s novel of the same name.

The Aristotelian logic that justified a third term has collapsed and with it the Manichean, scientific and fundamentalist logics, a clearing is opening up, larger than Heidegger would have imagined in his “Forest Paths”.

The meaning of the clearing in Heidegger’s Dasein (being-there) is a metaphor for an opening in the forest that symbolizes human experience, a static field (figure above) where we move and try to see this experience clearly (image ‘Plan Générique’ by Fotis Ifantidis).

The great clearing promises to open up in a world of conflicts of all kinds, which will at some point have a “broad” light, science itself will see the serious epistemological divergences, from an archaic scientism to pure philosophical speculation, which hides under the idea of science, which ignores the true transcendence (not the scientific one) of humanity.

The root of the social crisis is revealed within the ancient frameworks of scientific, religious and political fundamentalism, it will need to create an even greater crisis that will make humanity wake up from its idealist/Enlightenment slumber and turn towards the good (see previous post) and flee from narratives.

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