Was there really a time when nature wasn't taken under a microscope? When art and music was used to tell stories, and the thought of testing its limits hadn't really been explored?
With this episode we begin looking at Chapter 2: The Rise of Disciplinary Society. Here, Charles Taylor begins by looking at the story of how humanity started looking at nature for its own sake.
As we follow the story through to today, it becomes scary to realise how quickly treating nature as void of intrinsic purpose can lead us to treating people as void of intrinsic purpose; things/people start to be seen more explicitly as valuable for what they can do.
References:
Pages of A Secular Age, Charles Taylor: (92-98)
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/contemplatingculture
