From Physics to Politics
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Analytic Synthetic Distinction
Argumentum Ad Ignorantiam
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Behavioral Agencies
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Causal Determinism
Causal Principle
Deterministic Metaphysics
Enlightenment rationalism
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Free Agents
Hume's Empiricism
Hume’s Empiricism
Hypothetico Deductive Method
Inertial Reference Frame
Late Medieval Philosophers
Medieval Philosophical Theology
metaphysical realism
moral epistemology
Moral Truth Claims
Nature's Fulfillment
Nature’s Fulfillment
origins of politicized truth
Perfect God
Pessimistic Developments
Peter A. Redpath
philosophy of science
political ideology critique
Popper's Logik Der Forschung
Popper’s Logik Der Forschung
principle
Radical Humean Empiricism
Robert C. Trundle
scientific necessity
Scientific Truth Claims
System De La Nature
Teleological Adaptabilities
Traditional Moral Theories
Vice Versa
Virtual Truism
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781560004110
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 252mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Mass ideology is unique to modern society and rooted in early modern philosophy. Traditionally, knowledge had been viewed as resting on metaphysics. Rejecting metaphysical truth evoked questions about the source of "truth." For nineteenth-century ideologists, "truth" comes either from dominating classes in a progressively determined history or from a post-Copernican freedom of the superior man to create it. In From Physics to Politics Robert C. Trundle, Jr. uncovers the relation of modern philosophy to political ideology. And in rooting truth in human nature and Nature by modal reasoning, he resolves the problem of politicized truth.Our concepts of scientific truth, logic, and necessity are essentially connected. Modern philosophy restricts our understanding of necessity to the political dreams and aspirations of Enlightenment intellectuals. As a result, these intellectuals refuse to acknowledge as factual or meaningful whatever is not intelligible within the practical goals of establishing science as a system of enlightened ideas. The effect of these ideas is that in our time metaphysical principles, speculative truths, our understanding of science, and the nature of logic have become subordinated to ideological dreams. Fascism, Nazism, Marxism, political correctness, and moral relativism are not historical aberrations but essential consequences.Trundle's work is groundbreaking and daring, and his underlying thesis demonstrates why scientific truth demands a modal defense. The defense not only integrates science, ethics, and politics, but shows how "truth" may be ascribed to moral and scientific principles in contrast to a modern philosophical tradition. Since this tradition is the origin of political ideology, it has led to an irrational politicization of truth. The book will appeal particularly to those interested in political history, histories of philosophy, the philosophy of sciences, and ethics.
