Mass ideology is unique to modern society and rooted in early
modern philosophy. Traditionally, knowledge had been viewed as
resting on metaphysics. Rejecting metaphysical truth evoked
questions about the source of "truth." For nineteenth-century
ideologists, "truth" comes either from dominating classes in a
progressively determined history or from a post-Copernican freedom
of the superior man to create it. In "From Physics to Politics"
Robert C. Trundle, Jr. uncovers the relation of modern philosophy
to political ideology. And in rooting truth in human nature and
Nature by modal reasoning, he resolves the problem of politicized
truth.
Our concepts of scientific truth, logic, and necessity are
essentially connected. Modern philosophy restricts our
understanding of necessity to the political dreams and aspirations
of Enlightenment intellectuals. As a result, these intellectuals
refuse to acknowledge as factual or meaningful whatever is not
intelligible within the practical goals of establishing science as
a system of enlightened ideas. The effect of these ideas is that in
our time metaphysical principles, speculative truths, our
understanding of science, and the nature of logic have become
subordinated to ideological dreams. Fascism, Nazism, Marxism,
political correctness, and moral relativism are not historical
aberrations but essential consequences.
Trundle's work is groundbreaking and daring, and his underlying
thesis demonstrates why scientific truth demands a modal defense.
The defense not only integrates science, ethics, and politics, but
shows how "truth" may be ascribed to moral and scientific
principles in contrast to a modern philosophical tradition. Since
this tradition is the origin of political ideology, it has led to
an irrational politicization of truth. The book will appeal
particularly to those interested in political history, histories of
philosophy, the philosophy of sciences, and ethics.
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