User:Jaredscribe/Scholarly Values
We will use the organic method, even when analyzing our own values.
Definition and division of terms: what is the general category of scholarship?
It is a social habit, a way of life practiced in community.
What is the specific category - this way and this habit among all the others possible?
Scholarship is the way of the theoretical life applied to natural philosophy, and the habit of discourse and epistemology.
Scholarly Community on Wikipedia
[edit]We welcome responsa made "the spirit of scholarly discourse," but find that this cannot be assumed in an encyclopedia of anonymous editors.
Renaissance of the 12th century is the beginning of the scientific revolution.
Modern science of Bacon
[edit]is a term equivocally used.
- Discoveries of natural philosophy made by the scientific method, during the modern era: such as Newtonian mechanics. Isaac Newton was a scholastic, not a modern, and he always refer to himself as a "natural philosopher", not as a "scientist."
- An ideological construct laid down by Francis Bacon, who did not make a single scientific discovery, and is more properly called scientism. This is the belief science is the only or best way to describe our world. Bacon used Newton's discoveries to promote his own ideology, but rejected Newton's basic assumptions, holding instead that within nature there exist no final causes or purposes, or else science cannot know them. It was an a priori denial of teleology, or else merely a dogmatic agnosticism regarding them. These he contemptuously dismisses as "Idols of the Theater", and held that only material and efficient causes have any relevance. More so than Darwin, he and David Hume deserve credit for pioneering the worldview known as evolutionary biology. This is worldview and set of assumptions is incommensurable with natural philosophy, which affirms that purposes are inherent in natural species. This enabled an industrial revolution to allow the human species remarkable new powers, but often in ways that not only desacralized nature, but also ignored natural ecology and trusting implicitly in artificial means.
Philosophical Science of Newton
[edit]For lack of natural philosophy, there is now a replication crisis in modern science. This is what happens when ignorance is mainstreamed, and scholarship is considered "fringe". We assert this error was motivated by industrial politics and imperial expansion, in other words by greed, and not by any intellectual virtue of science. This vicious greed masquerading as "science" and trading on its good name, is most likely the efficient cause of the 21st century crisis and it has been going on for quite some time. We believe that industry, government, and academia should reject the core assumptions of modern science entirely. Rather, we should follow the way of Newton, who is of a far greater scientific pedigree than Bacon, and who rightly regarding science as only one of several or more valid methods of ascertaining truth, and one that requires intuitive reason in order to function properly. "Philosophical science", such as that practiced by Isaac Newton, should be the bias of the Encyclopedic community, as it is of the scholastic community.
And someday perhaps the Academics will discover that Plato was also mistaken about some things, and that fascism is no good, and that neo-Platonism is a tedious cult.
Until then, we have no reason to seek an Academic bias in Wikipedia, nor do we have any obligation to accept one imposed on us by the anti-WP:Fringe Theories" cabal cum Borg collective that thinks it owns Wikipedia.