Our era is characterised by enormous technological developments. Only a thorough analysis of current scientific thinking will be able to show which aspects of it will be beneficial for future civilisation. The humanities and natural sciences must engage with each other in order to regain access to the reality of a world that today, under the demands of progress in the ‘positive sciences’, has been reduced to mere linguistic descriptions, largely in the form of algorithms.
Aurora and Centaur endeavours to reconstruct the epistemology of Goethe’s world view, as elaborated by Rudolf Steiner, in order to combine the rigour of the positive sciences with the creativity typical of the arts. In doing so, Steiner paved the way for the development of a new form of science that is capable of grasping different levels of natural being, including life itself, based on the free activity of the experiencing subject.
“With its chronic replicability problem, John P. A. Ioannidis’s famous paper ‘Why most published research findings are false’, and books with titles like Why So Much of Science Is Wrong (Barrie Condon), materialist science is clearly experiencing a possibly terminal existential crisis. Drawing on the neglected scientific studies of Goethe and Rudolf Steiner, this important paradigm-busting book presents a path towards a properly founded holistic science that transcends the intrinsic limitations of materialism and narrow scientific positivism. A must-read for all open-minded scientists, and philosophers and sociologists of science.”
Richard House Ph.D., co-author of Beyond Mainstream Medicine and editor of Humanising Science and Medicine: Critical Paradigmatic Conversations
