30-08-2025, 08:54 PM
Quote:You can extract so much utilities from Spengler's works and ideas. I disagree with taking too serious what the fellow above pointed from Popper; he [Popper] was just another academic, sensualist and positivist, representative of the materialist intellectual clergy and, as the materialists in general, castrated intellectually. As Feyarebend pointed, falsifying theories is just futile work, because each theory -and by the way, epistemology- has it's own potentialities and limitations; and that was pointed yet by many before, one of such was Spengler, in concrete in the Chapter where talks about Physiognomics and Systematics. Everything is worthy, and the real work is to contrast the theories and the conclusions. In fact, the mere existence of intellectuals as Popper validates the argument of Spengler about the "religion of materialist times", and I see a clear similarity and correlation in institutions as Catholic Church and the Scientific-Academic one. What Spengler did can be perfectly understood as sociology too. Even the skepticism Spengler pointed as the main type of mentality of 20th century accomplished with the entire academia negating metaphysics and metanarratives just by disbelief not by a supposedly "scientific" comprobation. And that lead us to the next point: What is science? Where starts and who defines that? "Science" and "truth", as are intended in the general realm, are just conventions, usually imposed or reinforced by political actions or consequences. "Pseudoscience" is just a word that means "heretic", that is the true substantiality of monotheism: just one truth, the rest is heresy and sin."
