Scientism andSelf-Destruction: Some Reflections

In general modern western science is not science at all, it is scientism. It is inherently limited, the attitude of this so called ’science’ seems to be, ‘whatever is outside the range of my telescope does not exist’. When they asked Parmenides, who is considered to be the founder of logic and science in the west, ‘What is your profession?”, he answered “I’m a physicos”, and in the Greek the physicos is one who sought to understand the nature of things, but to take an example of something like physics, this is not the case, as Bertrand Russel says, the great British philosopher who himself did not belong to a Tradition, in his address to MIT, physics has nothing to do with the understanding of the nature of things, but it just leads to certain empirical data and mathematical formulation about phenomena and things, but not about their ‘nature’, if this word is to be understood in it’s real sense, meaning the essence of things. Modern science, or I should say, scientism, is still caught in the Cartesian Dualism of Descartes and champions empiricism, as if by enchantment, this idiotic notion empirircism can be proven empirically. Scientism seems to be the peg and bed rock that holds up the tent of Modernism and the Modern world, so it is not suprising that it is shoved so vehemently down everybodies throat, it has nothing to do with science, it has become a way of life. Whether the agnostics and atheists admit it or not, scientism has become the pseudo-religion of the modern world.