Philosophy and Science
If Science is the art of life; Philosophy is the heart of life. Science tends to narrow down the world that we live in; Philosophy tends to broaden the world. If science is quantitave, Philosophy is qualitative.
For a Scientist is the one who knows more and more about the less and less known, the Philosopher is the one who knows less and less about the more and more unknowns.
To be a Philosopher "is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust" quoth Thoreau.
Science seeks things, Philosophy qualifies, ascertains relations and adds meaning and worth to those things. For who else other than Philosophy can define and alienate Good and Evil, Beautiful and Ugly, Freedom and Truth.
In fact every science begins as philosophy and ends as an art, for Philosophy is a hypothetical interpretation of the unknown or of the inexact unknown. Philosophy is definitely the apostle in the seize of truth.
Philosophy accepts the hard and hazardous task of dealing with problems not yet open to the methods of science. Philosophy is the field of enquiry, but science is the victim of such field of enquiry whose knowledge is susceptible through the exact formulations of it.Hence science is analytical descriction of the known facts but Philosophy is the synthetic interpretation of the facts known and unknown.
Theories of Science can be put as " the more you capture, the more you are left with to capture". Philosophy is the pioneer of Science and science is the heir apparent of Philosophy. Philosophy is the pedestal that leaves the fruits to the Science. Beneath it are those secure regions where the knowledge meets wisdom, life meets truth and the truth meets the divinely discontent sense of Joy.
For a fact is nothing except in relation to desire; it's incomplete except in relation to a purpose and a whole. Science without Philosophy is like facts without perspective and valuation, quantitative mass without quality. Science can give us Knowledge but its only Philosophy that can lead knowledge to Wisdom.
For a Scientist is the one who knows more and more about the less and less known, the Philosopher is the one who knows less and less about the more and more unknowns.
To be a Philosopher "is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust" quoth Thoreau.
Science seeks things, Philosophy qualifies, ascertains relations and adds meaning and worth to those things. For who else other than Philosophy can define and alienate Good and Evil, Beautiful and Ugly, Freedom and Truth.
In fact every science begins as philosophy and ends as an art, for Philosophy is a hypothetical interpretation of the unknown or of the inexact unknown. Philosophy is definitely the apostle in the seize of truth.
Philosophy accepts the hard and hazardous task of dealing with problems not yet open to the methods of science. Philosophy is the field of enquiry, but science is the victim of such field of enquiry whose knowledge is susceptible through the exact formulations of it.Hence science is analytical descriction of the known facts but Philosophy is the synthetic interpretation of the facts known and unknown.
Theories of Science can be put as " the more you capture, the more you are left with to capture". Philosophy is the pioneer of Science and science is the heir apparent of Philosophy. Philosophy is the pedestal that leaves the fruits to the Science. Beneath it are those secure regions where the knowledge meets wisdom, life meets truth and the truth meets the divinely discontent sense of Joy.
For a fact is nothing except in relation to desire; it's incomplete except in relation to a purpose and a whole. Science without Philosophy is like facts without perspective and valuation, quantitative mass without quality. Science can give us Knowledge but its only Philosophy that can lead knowledge to Wisdom.
posted by Sameer G Kulkarni @ 5/18/2005 09:01:00 AM
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