Expanded Reason Awards

The concept of Expanded Reason

In the context of a positivist and relativist culture, Joseph Ratzinger and later Benedict XVI, point out the deep division of knowledge and the excessive specialization in the university field that leave out an overall vision that gives meaning to each specific science. Relativism, scientism and pragmatism leave no room for an integrative knowledge that encompasses the objects of study in an orderly manner, preventing a priori the search for truth.

The Pope emeritus showed a constant concern for the positivist conception that categorically denies a global vision of man and the recognition of his dignity. A vision that denies a scientific status to Philosophy and Theology, separating them completely from the world of science, which is reduced to mathematics and experimental verification.

As a result, Ratzinger returns to the need to have a broad and open vision of reason and its exercise in the search for truth and the answer to the fundamental questions about man and his destiny.

Continue in expandedreason.org