The Methodological Imperialism of Scientism

Abstract

The challenge is to expand both the scope of science and of reason so as to rationally address the key issues concerning man, without relegating them to private-subjective choices which lack a universal perspective. This requires considering how this has carved narrow reductionist science has systematically omitted sensitivity and subject vision. Briefly discuss the historical process that led to the ideal of modern science and its radicalization by the Vienna Circle. Then the input and contributions of Husserl and phenomenologist Michel Henry to illustrate what is meant by knowledge of science, namely awareness and knowledge of life. Will be noted how scientism leads to barbarism in the world of life, culture and university. The last part of this paper presents the paradox of how at a time when the process of techno-scientific rationality reaches global and universal dimensions, it is precisely when bursts of irrationality in the forms of relativism and nihilism.