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8/3/2025, 5:46:54 AM
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>The modern project was originated by philosophers, and it was originated as something required by nature, by natural rights. The project was meant to satisfy, in the most perfect manner, the most powerful and natural needs of men. Nature was to be conquered for the sake of man, who was supposed to possess a nature, an unchangeable nature. The originators of the project took it for granted that philosophy and science are identical.
>After some time, it appeared that the conquest of nature requires the conquest of human nature too and, in the first place, the questioning of the unchangeability of human nature. After all, an unchangeable human nature might set absolute limits to progress. Accordingly, the natural needs of men could no longer direct the conquest of nature.
>The direction had to come from reason as distinguished from nature, from the rational “Ought” as distinguished from the neutral “Is.” Thus, philosophy, logic, ethics, aesthetics, as the study of the “Ought” or the norms, became separated from science as the study of the “Is.” While the study of the “Is,” or science, succeeded ever more in increasing man’s power, the ensuing discredit of reason precluded distinction between the wise, or right, and the foolish, or wrong, use of power. Science, separated from philosophy, cannot teach wisdom.
>There are still some people who believe that this predicament will disappear as soon as social science and psychology have caught up with physics and chemistry. This belief is wholly unreasonable. For social science and a still further increase of man's power. They will enable man to manipulate men still better than ever before. They will as little teach man how to use his power over men or non-men as physics and chemistry do.
>The people who indulge this hope have not grasped the bearing of the distinction between facts and values, which they preach all the time.
-Strauss, The Crisis of Our Time
Fuck you.
>The modern project was originated by philosophers, and it was originated as something required by nature, by natural rights. The project was meant to satisfy, in the most perfect manner, the most powerful and natural needs of men. Nature was to be conquered for the sake of man, who was supposed to possess a nature, an unchangeable nature. The originators of the project took it for granted that philosophy and science are identical.
>After some time, it appeared that the conquest of nature requires the conquest of human nature too and, in the first place, the questioning of the unchangeability of human nature. After all, an unchangeable human nature might set absolute limits to progress. Accordingly, the natural needs of men could no longer direct the conquest of nature.
>The direction had to come from reason as distinguished from nature, from the rational “Ought” as distinguished from the neutral “Is.” Thus, philosophy, logic, ethics, aesthetics, as the study of the “Ought” or the norms, became separated from science as the study of the “Is.” While the study of the “Is,” or science, succeeded ever more in increasing man’s power, the ensuing discredit of reason precluded distinction between the wise, or right, and the foolish, or wrong, use of power. Science, separated from philosophy, cannot teach wisdom.
>There are still some people who believe that this predicament will disappear as soon as social science and psychology have caught up with physics and chemistry. This belief is wholly unreasonable. For social science and a still further increase of man's power. They will enable man to manipulate men still better than ever before. They will as little teach man how to use his power over men or non-men as physics and chemistry do.
>The people who indulge this hope have not grasped the bearing of the distinction between facts and values, which they preach all the time.
-Strauss, The Crisis of Our Time
Fuck you.
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