By Corina Wong
The Scientific Revolution emerged around the 16th and 17th centuries, and was in part a response to the arbitrary and repressive control held by the Church. The period was commonly regarded as the origin of modern science, and intellectuals like Newton, Copernicus and Galileo questioned everything they saw and introduced the notion of Reason as the ultimate form of understanding. This forever changed the way humans viewed the world.
However, Tony Golsby-Smith’s article “The Second Road of Thought” argues that this dominant, rational way of thinking was guided by Aristotle’s ‘analytics’, and “ranks as one of the worst investment decisions our civilization has made.” Golsby-Smith, an Australian-based designer and strategic facilitator, believes that our thinking processes are greatly influenced by the culture of the sciences. As a society, we place too much emphasis on logic and analysis. For instance, even in universities (the “home of thinking”, as he describes it) subjects must be presented as a science in order to be taken seriously. Read the rest of this entry »
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