The West is currently witnessing the slow destruction of the
classical liberal tradition. The casualties are reason, the
willingness to question political or religious authority, and the
validity of natural science. Replacing these are a crippling
intellectual relativism, political apathy, and a grave
misunderstanding of natural science and its concomitant ethic. In
this work, Diana M. Judd gets to the root of the matter by directly
addressing the following questions: What is modern natural science?
What effect did it have on how we think about politics? What are
the dangers surrounding the marginalization of natural science and
the liberal intellectual and political tradition?
This is a work of political theory. It seeks to engage the
political by addressing the question first posed by the ancient
Greeks: How ought we to live? If we have indeed entered the age of
endarkenment where religious dogma, intellectual apathy, and
unquestioned authority increasingly hold sway, there is a need now,
more than ever, to explore the meaning and significance of the
origins of the modern political and scientific traditions Americans
take for granted. It is from these traditions that Americans
received the ideas of legitimate political resistance, reason,
individual rights, religious freedom, and natural science. The
importance of modern natural science and its relationship to these
tenets of classical liberalism is the central concern of this
book.
Claims that science is dogmatic and ideological, and that the
tenets of liberalism divide individuals, have become commonplace.
It is Judd's intention to show how these claims err, by exploring
what natural science is and how it evolved. This ethic centers on
the radical idea that authority must be questioned. We ignore this
to our peril. If individuals do not question what leaders say, we
abdicate the rights and responsibility of self-rule and individual
freedom.
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