The Retreat From Physical Reality: From Climate Change to the Human Body
In the 1700s the scientific revolution facilitated the escape of Western societies from the medieval metaphysics of religion. Knowledge would be based upon the rigorous observance of the natural world, the “scientific method”, instead of the interpretation and reinterpretation of previous texts that referred to mystical beings and powers. It was not a t…
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