This Is Epistemology (J. Adam Carter).

This is Epistemology Autor J.Adam Carter

In the novel of writer J.A.Картер , we get acquainted with a scientist working in a laboratory. The hero doesn't have friends or any close people. On the contrary, his colleagues hate him and find a reason to exclude from their conversations and let it be. Still here, at first glance, one can suggest that here is a person like hundreds of scientists, but upon closer reading, you will realize that the life of the protagonist of the novel is full of intrigue. In fact, the scientist now not only travels across countries, solving scientific and philosophical problems, but also enters the secret society, where only the strongest and smartest people can be. In this world, which exists among us, new rules apply, in which the person becomes dependent on others and feels regret. Just as the scientist in the novel was forced to betray his friends and colleagues to embark on this path. But there are no guides for how to follow it right and make the right choice along the way. No one knows whether the mysterious "society" will turn out to be the knowledge and purpose we have been looking for, or someone else with access to such knowledge will decree his own authority, while he decides if his people are worthy or not. However, the reader will certainly find out whether in this case science does not become religious and religion scientific.

Это немного вводит в заблуждение название книги ("This is epistemology"), автор которой не философ, а писатель и эссеист J. A. Carter (он получил докторскую степень по литературе и впоследствии стал преподавать философию), но как будет видно далее, это хорошая эвристика. Тематическая область, которую исследует мысль Картера, включает связь между эсхатологией и эпистемологией, и она заслуживает внимания по двум причинам: во-первых, потому что она вскрывает абсурдные следствия некоторых широчайших допущений; во-вторых, в ней угадываются общие структуры религиозной мысли.

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