Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Yesterday, we looked at social Darwinism as a philosophy that justified racial supremacy and elitism. Today I’d like to look at a second philosophy that keeps the sources of help and comfort hidden from people at large. That philosophy is called empirical materialism. Webster’s defines “empirical” as “originating in or based on observation or experience.” […]
Ever since the Scientific Revolution wrested the public’s attention from flawed religious doctrines, the world has seen life through a paradigm called “empirical materialism.” That paradigm holds that only what can be seen, heard, touched, and felt is real. Anything invisible, insensible, untouchable is dismissed as unreal. It closes the door to such things as […]
