Ciência, Filosofia e… algo mais

Abstract

The problem of knowledge marked the beginning of the modern age and determined the emergence and development of the “scientific” knowledge that revolutionized human existence and manifested itself in the conviction that knowing means to objectively describe things as they are. It is this objectivity and this realism that contemporary reflection deeply questions, seeking a new vision of human knowledge that also includes a new vision of human existence in the world. We must accept that we are immersed in the mystery and our knowledge can never disregard this dimension of our existence. The pages of this book invite us to rethink knowledge as a process of interpretation of a “mystery” that is constitutive of human existence in the world. Every process of human knowledge is the incessant attempt to interpret this mystery, which can never be fully unveiled by science or philosophy, but whose unceasing search can always bring us closer to the truth that is humanly possible.