Ecoblogi – A Blog by Daniel Elkama

Technocrats and representatives of hard sciences often belittle philosophy, psychology and the humanities as if they were something silly and “not so exact science”. Philosophy is the mother of all sciences: modern science was born in ancient Greece precisely from philosophy. In the beginning, it was wonder and reflection, which created the foundation for all science. There is no science independent of philosophy. Psychology studies our mind, our inner world and what is important in life. Psychology is present in all human activities.

The world is not a machine whose problems are solved by simple scientific, technical measures and “machine maintenance”. Solving the world’s problems requires deep interdisciplinary research, understanding and cooperation, reflection on values ​​and ethics and complex systems thinking. If we lose our souls to a machine, we lose the most valuable thing we have.

Philosophy is not nonsense nor a gimmick, but a tool for a deep understanding of reality: especially concepts such as morality, goodness, evil, knowledge, meaning and value. Without these, the world would be meaningless. It is values and meaning that make life valuable, good and important.

Mathematics and the natural sciences can provide solutions, but they are not enough on their own: they can tell us “what is happening”, but philosophy helps us understand why it is happening and how we should respond to it. Philosophy determines what is valuable and important to us and what we want to create and cherish: what kind of world we want.

Language is not inferior to mathematics or just a means of communication; it is a mirror of reality, like mathematics, and a tool for thinking, morality and modeling the world. When mastered carefully, language can be as exact and precise as mathematics, but it also contains values, meaning and context. The most accurate description of the world may not be a mathematical formula, which therefore does not contain these aforementioned dimensions.

Daniel Elkama