The Industrial Revolution and the tremendous success of the sciences, which led us to almost overwhelming technological progress and economic growth without parallels in human history, were the products of the Age of Enlightenment. It is mainly because of this movement of the 18th century, which draws its thought from the philosophy of the founders of modern science, like Galileo and Newton, that nowadays we can drive cars, use computers, transport ourselves throughout the world, or communicate with a space probe at the edge of the solar system. The Age of Enlightenment allowed humanity to make a big leap forward and ultimately transformed our society.
However, this seemingly unstoppable material success of human reason and the marvelous power of scientific thinking have lured us into a materialistic belief system that has become a more or less unconscious, deeply engraved conviction: namely, that every problem can be solved only inside a strictly material, rational and analytic thinki…
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