Kara N. Slade The Fullness of Time
Here is a reflection stimulated by my reading of The Fullness of Time: Jesus Christ, Science, and Modernity Kindle Edition, 2021 by Kara N. Slade. In my studies of philosophy, I weaned myself away from finding a philosopher that I thought approximated the truth. I approach philosophy as a means toward helping me think through a viewing of the world that seems right to me. Such a view of philosophy is always open to further amendments that may make me shift my perspective. What this means is that I can read both Plato and Aristotle with great profit, and not think I must choose between them. The same is true of Hegel and Kierkegaard, both of whom have perspectives that have nourished me in my intellectual journey. Hegel, for example, has a powerful critique of the “scientific human being” of his time, represented in both Rationalism (Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza) and Empiricism (Hume, Locke). His insight is correct as to the limits of the scientific method, even if