Is science advancing toward absolute truth, or is it just a repetition of paradigms? In this blog post, I will reflect on the nature and purpose of science centered around this question. While reading books on the philosophy of science, I learned about discussions on how science accumulates knowledge and progresses. Through my reading, I examined various positions in the philosophy of...
This blog post examines how religion and science can coexist and complement each other in modern society through Yuval Noah Harari’s perspective. Yuval Noah Harari on Science and Religion Yuval Noah Harari begins Chapter 5 by comparing traditional myths or religions—stories of the past—with science—stories of the present. He states that the emergence of scientific theories ushered in...
This blog post examines how noble love, through Goethe’s ‘Urfaust’, reveals human frailty and moral limitations, leading to tragedy. When people think of love, they often imagine a sublime and beautiful, yet simultaneously fiery and passionate emotion. This conception of love seems to be a common image that arises in people’s consciousness across cultures and throughout history...
This blog post explores whether it is truly justified to interpret areas science has yet to explain as the intervention of an ‘intelligent being’. Through the clash between evolution and intelligent design theory, we deeply examine where the boundary lies between scientific evidence and theological interpretation. In a world dominated by creationism—the belief that God created the universe...
In this blog post, we will examine the essence of science through an observational lens and deeply explore the relationship between intelligent design and evolution—a relationship difficult to define solely by the criteria of verification and falsification. Historically, certain books have profoundly shaken human thought. One such book is Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species...
This blog post delves deeply into the Christian symbolism hidden within Hemingway’s characteristic concise style and its meaning. Hemingway gained worldwide attention by publishing ‘A Farewell to Arms’ (1929) and ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ (1940), inspired by his experiences in World War I. However, his subsequent work ‘Across the River and Into the Trees’ was met with reader...
This blog post examines the validity and limitations of new paradigms, focusing on Thomas Kuhn’s theory of scientific revolutions. Before Thomas Kuhn, people believed science progressed by gradually building upon past research to accumulate knowledge. This is well captured in Isaac Newton’s famous statement about standing on the shoulders of giants to see farther. However, Kuhn...
This blog post systematically examines how the ‘concept of intersubjectivity’ is being weakened and reconfigured within our rapidly changing society, and why this transformation could become a core driving force for future civic revolutions. Through numerous civic revolutions, including the French Revolution, humanity broke free from absolute monarchies rooted in the divine right of kings...
This blog post explores how the Kama Sutra, often dismissed as a mere manual of sexual techniques, actually contains a philosophy of life and the meaning of human existence. A Barren Land Where Even Goats Contemplate As the world grows more chaotic, the procession toward India grows longer. For there, on its vast expanse, unfolds a universe distinct from the Lao-Zhuang philosophy, the...
This blog post explores how parasitic and non-parasitic species coexist in equilibrium, based on Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene and using ESS theory. In his book The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins rejects the species-based concept predominantly used in the scientific community and educational systems when discussing biological evolution. Instead, he views the living system centered...