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Principles
Sciences
and cultural arts may flourish only in bright ages of renascence and
enlightenment and they regularly break down in dark ages of aggressive
imperial wars, religious fundamentalism and dogmatic neoscholasticism.
The regress of social
research and their lagging behind natural sciences is due to their abuse by
perpetual epidemics of irrational thought and ‘dark ages’ of human
civilisation addicted to acquisitive plundering. When they ceased to be
abused by medieval scholastics and stopped assisting theology as its humble maid-servant (ancilla theologiae), they began to assist a reformed
political inquisition as an ancilla ideologiae.
The European
civilisation has repudiated supernatural spirits but has not outwitted the
economic lawfulness that procreates them repeatedly again and again. In
Christian Europe church dogmatics was replaced by
idealist cathedral metaphysics, which has functioned as a perfect makeshift
for lapsed conservative theology since the times of romanticism and German
classic philosophy. Instead of clergymen in sacerdotal cassocks there
appeared confessors of a new Nietzscheist religion
preaching irrationality without the bible, church and gods.
The chief obstacle of
scientific cognition in humanities is dogmatic integralism
that regards modern religions, races, nations and languages as integral
wholes. It refuses to realise that their genetic affiliation has undergone
assimilative processes of amalgamation that turned them into hybrid unities.
Genetic structuralism neglects recent synchronic structures as hybrid mixtures
and excavates their origins from pure Palaeolithic prototypes.
Most
common scientific terms denote hybrid and heterogeneous entities and have to
be revalidated by subtle analytic decomposition. Unless they are broken into
elementary atoms, they will remain worthless indissoluble substances like
clay, mud and dirt in medieval alchemy. They will fit the pigeon
holes of Darwinian and Mendeleevian systematics only after they are distilled into pure
elements.
The lure of orthodox integralism owes its rise to a revival of expansionism
and globalism. Catholic integralism
periodically lapses into frenzy of racism, nationalism and fundamentalism
whenever it is summoned to Christianise barbarians and it feels the itching
of overmastering countries of inferior nationalities. A new motivation of
nationalism emerged in causes of privatising state-owned realties when nouveaux riches needed to justify their proprietary claims
against foreigners.
In modern
times religious fundamentalism seems to rage only in Islamist theocracies but
in fact it equally operates in a covert form also in civilised secular
countries.
Since humanities did
not manage to constitute as sciences during the 19th century
positivist scientific revolution, they fell victims to the lures of the 20th
century modern and postmodern fundamentalism. As a result, they resigned and
resorted to the boom of pseudo-scientific irrationalism and intuitive essay-writing. They fall into savage bigotry because they
do not understand economic and social forces and assign their driving role to
supernatural divine, heroic, personal, human or animate spiritual forces.
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