Michel Foucault called unconscious assumptions during a given epoch “epistemes.”

The term "phenomenology" has become detached from the method that gave it meaning.

If everything is a phenomenological analysis, then nothing is a phenomenological analysis.

“It is still a metaphysical faith upon which our faith in science rests — that even we knowers of today, we godless anti-metaphysicians, still take our fire, too, from the flame lit by the thousand-year-old faith, the Christian faith which was also Plato’s faith, that God is truth; that truth is divine.” ~ Nietzsche

“It is still a metaphysical faith upon which our faith in science rests — that even we knowers of today, we godless anti-metaphysicians, still take our fire, too, from the flame lit by the thousand-year-old faith, the Christian faith which was also Plato’s faith, that God is truth; that truth is divine.” ~ Nietzsche

Michel Foucault studied tranches of history to report shifts in “epistemes,” unconscious assumptions that determine what counts as knowledge in a given epoch. For me, there was a paradigm shift in Western civilization in the beginning of the 20th century that can be seen in physics, painting, music, literature, psychology, and philosophy. What that shift exposed was exactly what Nietzsche had already identified: that our faith in the possible objectivity of “science” was tantamount to our faith in religion.

Look what happened in a single generation:

Heisenberg demonstrated that the act of observing a particle changes the particle.

Schrödinger proposed his famous thought experiment wherein a cat sealed in a box is........

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