The Metaverse and the Enlightenment Part II, III - a podcast by Daniel Dal Monte

In this episode, I continue to trace the intellectual roots of the Metaverse and the current “toxic” moment in human history in which intellectual trends of the past have reached a culmination. I discuss the rationalist system of Descartes and Christian Wolff, who tries to form a scientia with reason alone. The age of Reason replaces the age of Faith by using reason alone, without revelation and faith, to gain full deductive cognition of reality. In Part III, I explore how Hume debunks the idea of causality which is central to the Newtonian system. Causality is not something metaphysically robust in the world and we can’t seduce it rationally. Instead, causality is a psychological habit by which we associate events with no necessary logical connection.

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