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The mechanistic world-picture that has taken root since the scientific revolution rendered spiritual nature mere inert matter ignores and dismisses our real experience of the world, the ineffable conscious "self" we feel, and has thus impoverished our language and our lives
Spiritualism, cults, and all manner of religious groups attempt to fight back against the despair of the modern world-view, but their task is futile as long as the underlying view of the world as mechanism reigns.
In the late 20th Century, a scientific effort began to move away from the strict mechanistic view of early physics exploration at the intersection of quantum physics, chaos theory, and complex adaptive systems...
3. Modern conceptions of human liberty require that all values be viewed as subjective. The subjective nature of value gives the private striving of each individual person -- even when vacuous or image-inspired or greed-inspired -- the same weight...
8. At a profound level, architecture is irrelevant. The task of building has no special importance, except in so far as it contributes to practical function through engineering, or to material wealth through image.
The modern turn to polymorality and the loss of public value systems https://t.co/dsC6NqzmM1
CHAPTER 2: CLUES FROM THE HISTORY OF ART https://t.co/lmYS3dwbBz
