(266) Posting in Philosophy
Instead of spending time writing my lab report (oh, wait, I don't have my lab manual with me, just realized that when writing this, god how slow am I), I spent a fair bit of time writing my first Philosophy post. We are required to post at least 8 times (substantially) during the semester on various topics that interest us through the readings that we might not get to in class, and I just posted a ridiculous exposition of my thoughts on a small part of Francis Bacon's New Organon. Specifically, the governance of scientific knowledge for "use." He writes that it should be under the care of "sound reason" and "true religion," but never, as far as I know, define those terms. So I just spent some time blathering about what he might have meant by those two phrases (probably rather badly) which I ended up saying probably meant "logic and/or common sense," and "Church and/or Bible." And then I tried to show that for the "sound reason" part mankind would not move forward because how would we know who has sound reason and what the correct sound reason might be, and the "true religion" part didn't work for scientific usefulness because the Church has had a history of preventing scientific knowledge that went against its teachings. I didn't make much sense.
Gah philosophy is so hard.
Gah philosophy is so hard.