Rationality, humanism and modernity

Abstract

Modern philosophy has been, over all. a project to conceive itself as "scientific": simultaneously it tries to be "natural philosophy" and "natural science". The ideal of modern philosophy is the hobesian ideal of physicality, the scientificist prejudice of transforming man into body only. But the danger is present within scientificism. Nature, it seems, is there to be dominated, and these involves partialization, taming and unification in the manipulation, in the turning of means into ends.