The Crisis of Modernity by Augusto Del Noce;Carlo Lancellotti;

Author:Augusto Del Noce;Carlo Lancellotti; [Lancellotti;, Augusto Del Noce;Carlo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780773596740
Publisher: McGillQueensUP
Published: 2014-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

This hatred of religious transcendence, from which derives the idea of a sharp break – a revolutionary break, indeed – between two stages of human history, and absolute anti-traditionalism, defines the radical distinction between scientific immanentism and Idealistic immanentism. According to the latter, philosophical thought preserved the truth of religious thought in a different and higher form. It also preserved the fundamental core of religious morality so that, ultimately, coexistence would not be problematic.

On the contrary, scientism claims to sweep away the delusions and the ghosts of transcendence, but how can it do so if it has no arguments to support its negations? Let us listen again to Fondane: “(As for unbelievers), it is enough that the given argument establish formally what they desire in order for this argument to assume the sacred character of irrefutable proof, no matter what it is and even if it is as naive as Freud’s argument about the ‘primitive father.’”28 Let us look at another beautiful book, Organizing the Revolution by Augustin Cochin, which has been recently translated into Italian.29 In it we read: “Before the bloody terror of ’93, in the republic of letters there was, from 1765 to 1780, a bloodless terror, for which the Encyclopedia was the Committee of Public Safety and d’Alembert the Robespierre. This terror swept away reputations just as the other chopped off heads. Its guillotine was slander, ‘infamy’ as it was then called.”30 Perhaps Cochin did not emphasize enough how the formation of this republic of letters and its methods were the necessary consequence of scientism, and only of scientism.

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