A significant part of the pro science and anti religious animus was really anti French and anti Catholic (same difference in their eyes), propagated by the British after 1688. See Cato’s Letters for many examples.
The anti-French angle is new to me, thank you for pointing this out.
Anti-Catholic, for sure. The Reformation is a whole can of worms of its own, both intellectually (Luther, omg) and in terms of inciting the bloodshed that further fueled anti-religious sentiment. It is interesting that in the public mind, the Reformation is imagined as a sort of proto-Enlightenment, a complete inversion that even some of today's anti-religious, pro-Enlightenment people are waking up to.
Yeah. Few people know that Luther wasn’t just some random monk but instead a fairly senior figure in the Augustinian order. He certainly wasn’t some proto Rousseau.
Tremendously helpful breakdown of what I've intuited (I'm an engineer / philosopher, not a scientist) by plain old observation and contemplation. It's fascinating to sense, at this chaotic historical moment, how "the Wheel" of philosophy and myth is starting to turn in the post-Christendom West...
"Common sense tells us that it is ludicrous to think that science didn’t exist before: people have always been curious, and always loved to tinker and find things out. That’s basically what science is. No pompous theories about the “scientific method” needed." I started to make a distinction between "science" as widely perceived today (Post-Christendom) and technology. For example, the development of the harness for plough horses, the plough itself, et al, etc. We got quite a lot done, across quite a few centuries before someone coined idea of "scientific method", which is, even you boil it down, pretty clunky and demanding, in its pursuit of knowledge. I mean : if we'd waited for SM to confirm everything with double blind studies, before getting started, I doubt Wed be here at all. Lot of human disciplines work pretty well without "science".
Looking forward to discovering rest of your unfolding reflections asking this line...
A significant part of the pro science and anti religious animus was really anti French and anti Catholic (same difference in their eyes), propagated by the British after 1688. See Cato’s Letters for many examples.
The anti-French angle is new to me, thank you for pointing this out.
Anti-Catholic, for sure. The Reformation is a whole can of worms of its own, both intellectually (Luther, omg) and in terms of inciting the bloodshed that further fueled anti-religious sentiment. It is interesting that in the public mind, the Reformation is imagined as a sort of proto-Enlightenment, a complete inversion that even some of today's anti-religious, pro-Enlightenment people are waking up to.
Yeah. Few people know that Luther wasn’t just some random monk but instead a fairly senior figure in the Augustinian order. He certainly wasn’t some proto Rousseau.
Tremendously helpful breakdown of what I've intuited (I'm an engineer / philosopher, not a scientist) by plain old observation and contemplation. It's fascinating to sense, at this chaotic historical moment, how "the Wheel" of philosophy and myth is starting to turn in the post-Christendom West...
"Common sense tells us that it is ludicrous to think that science didn’t exist before: people have always been curious, and always loved to tinker and find things out. That’s basically what science is. No pompous theories about the “scientific method” needed." I started to make a distinction between "science" as widely perceived today (Post-Christendom) and technology. For example, the development of the harness for plough horses, the plough itself, et al, etc. We got quite a lot done, across quite a few centuries before someone coined idea of "scientific method", which is, even you boil it down, pretty clunky and demanding, in its pursuit of knowledge. I mean : if we'd waited for SM to confirm everything with double blind studies, before getting started, I doubt Wed be here at all. Lot of human disciplines work pretty well without "science".
Looking forward to discovering rest of your unfolding reflections asking this line...