This awareness has sharply challenged
the modern view of reality and demands a revolution of previously held scales of values.
Not that I would dream of rehearsing the controversy again; but I will note that, at the time, I took my general point to be not that natural - law theory is inherently futile, but rather that its proponents often fail to grasp just how nihilistic the late
modern view of reality has become, or how far our culture has gone toward losing any coherent sense of «nature» at all, let alone of any realm of moral meanings to which nature might afford access.
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One understanding
of human nature common to the
modern era sees man as standing both above and outside nature (after Descartes, as a sort disembodied rational being), and nature itself as raw material — sometimes more pliable, sometimes less — for furthering human ambition (an instrumentalist post — Francis Bacon
view of nature as a
reality not simply to be understood but to be «conquered» and used to satisfy human desires).
According to Hans Jonas, the birth
of modern science was bound up with the advent
of a radical new
view of reality, a «technological ontology» that conflates nature and artifice, knowing and making, truth and utility.
This understanding
of art, now
of the gallery and simply open to
view rather than created with a purpose, seems to symbolise our
modern era: at once a loss
of God, purpose and meaning, yet at the same time a search for deeper and more lasting
realities.
Process thought is usually defined in one
of three ways: (1) as any
view of reality that is dynamic and relational and based on the findings
of modern science, (2) identified with «the Chicago School,» the University
of Chicago Divinity School, both in its earlier phase
of applying evolutionary theory to historical research, seeing religion as a dynamic movement that reconstitutes itself in response to felt needs, as well as its later philosophical phase, and (3) synonymous with the philosophy
of Whitehead and Hartshorne.
In contrast to people in biblical times «
modern man acknowledges as
reality only such phenomena or events as are comprehensible within the framework
of the rational order
of the universe... the thinking
of modem men is really shaped by the scientific world -
view, and.
There are others, however, who consider this move a regression, for the
modern world which sees
reality as evolving gives a truer picture than the static world -
view of the past.
Both have experienced the disdain and rejection
of the contemporary sensibility because they hold to assumptions that seem quite incompatible with a
modern scientific mode
of viewing reality.
The compartmentalization
of modern knowledge is a magnified expression
of the substantialist
view that sees
reality as composed
of isolated, discrete substances.
Yet these are precisely the beliefs that Ford
views on the compositional histories
of Science and the
Modern World and Process and
Reality require us to adopt.
Nevertheless, the layman's common - sense
view of reality is baffled by such conundrums as the nature
of time and space, the
reality of human freedom, quantum jumps in physics, or the claim
of modern science that colors are not really present in the objects
of perception but only in the mind
of the beholder.
THOMISTIC MATTER Dear Father Editor, William Charlton («A Question
of Matter», Letters, Jan / Feb issue) supports the
view that
modern science is in opposition to the account
of physical
reality given by Thomas Aquinas, or at least by his disciples.
Your film seems to portray a pessimistic
view of reality in
modern society.
The movie is still riveting and suspenseful after multiple
viewings, maybe because it's anchored in
reality and so beautifully simple — the horror is played out within the
realities of a
modern marriage in late -»60s Manhattan and the «God is dead» movement.
It can be seen and felt in New York galleries, on the walls
of major art institutions like the Museum
of Modern Art and the New Museum, watching a Trisha Brown performance on Chelsea's High Line, and even
viewed on TV — take the HBO production Cinema Verite, about the world's first
reality show, An American Family.
Among her many group exhibitions currently on
view are
Reality of My Surroundings: The Contemporary Collection at the Nasher, Durham and Philodendron: From Pan-Latin Exotic to American
Modern at the Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach.