Under the ashes of science - Daniele Nani

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Some key aspects of contemporary science, related to Goethe's conception of the world.

This essay deals with "... some aspects of contemporary science ... which are particularly interesting for the present.

These aspects, in fact, indicate to us a kind of threshold, they announce a probable "paradigm" transition.

If on the one hand... we find ourselves forced to recognize that science continues to persevere in the tendency to make nature "dry", privileging the theoretical tools and symbols of logic and mathematics, as well as continuing to develop impressive technology, d On the other hand, we are also required to welcome some extremely suggestive results of contemporary scientific "creativity".

Studies on "deterministic chaos", the theory of catastrophes, the developments of quantum mechanics and, in biology, holistic and structuralist theories etc., reveal to us something about the contemporary human being who seems to harbor within himself a sort of profound premonition of "living", of the "organic". In many scientific disciplines the need to rediscover the path towards the "qualitative" and towards the "form" is strongly felt, ... two inseparable aspects of nature. Rediscovering these categories, in a non-purely abstract way, would lead science towards a true "ecology", that is, towards a global restoration of nature.

However, there is also a risk which is connected with the greater power of the theories and formalisms of current science, as well as with the increasingly refined development of specific technologies, that is, that of a possible manipulation of "life" and the "soul". In this perspective, which therefore presents luminous and disturbing implications, it is extremely important to find a "bridge" between science and anthroposophy... The importance of Goethe's conception of the world... consists precisely in the fact that it constitutes a possible foundation for the development of a science that embraces the totality of human experience, with its aesthetic and ethical aspects and does not limit itself to combining technology with cold intellectualism..." (from the Epilogue)

Daniele Nani was born in Milan on 12.27.1950. Here he graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1976, and practiced as an anesthetist-resuscitator hospital doctor. He is currently a natural sciences teacher at the Rudolf Steiner Scientific High School in Milan, the city where he practices his free medical profession. He is Vice President of the Italian Goethean Scientific Association. He collaborates with the Institute of Phytopathology and Statistics of the University of Bologna with which he published an article in the "British Homeopathic Journal". He collaborates with the magazine "Terra Biodinamica".