I recently read William Gilbert’s renaissance masterpiece “On the Lodestone”, and found his work to be extremely intriguing. Gilbert lived at the dawn of the scientific era, from 1544-1603, predating Francis Bacon – originator of the modern scientific method – by about 20 years. He
The dominant public attitude toward Philosophy has steadily shifted from interest, to dis-illusion, to confusion, to dis-interest, to ridicule throughout the 20th century. The culmulating influence of post-modernism was in full display in the late 1960s, as the culture disintegrated into the arbitrary, violent, and
The slow destruction of philosophy, starting with the rejection of the mind’s ability to perceive Reality, as enunciated byKant (based in turn on a history of ideas starting with Plato), and accelerating gradually through the progressive dominance of Rationalism and Empiricism in the 18th and