Philosophy and Other Subjects (Intro to Philosophy Coursera Week 1)
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end, amen. A continuation of the commentary on Week 1 of Introduction to Philosophy from Coursera. The distinction between philosophy and other sciences are precisely on how they view thinking. Science in general studies truths in a particular way and accepts its presuppositions from philosophy. Therefore, whatever philosophy says, science follows, and it is never the other way around. There is always a philosophical backing behind certain scientific worldviews, including the infamous scientism.
Science accepts the philosophical
presuppositions given to them dogmatically and work out from them without
question. Philosophy’s role is precisely to debate and question these
presuppositions and revise them as they are continuously given to science. As
such, science accepts a particular way of thinking and work their way from
there, while philosophy investigates the ways of thinking. Of course
technically no more philosophy should be done, as the Catholic Faith has been
discovered, therefore all of science should be rightly ordered towards the
Catholic Faith and philosophy. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to
the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world
without end, amen.
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