Modern Science Cultural effects

Abstract

Modern culture, developed in the 17th century, transformed not only the world, which was idealized in its mathematical project, but started the process that dominated rationally all cultural, social, economic and moral dimensions. This paper explores how modern reason prevailed through modern science by placing our confidence in mathematical order, and thus, it overcame the knowledge through analogy which prevailed during the Middle Ages; and granted the sovereignty over the world to modern epistemic subject, from which it became possible to intervene in order to modify and to have control in every one of the cultural dimensions: the scientific, the moral and the aesthetic. From the point of view of critical theory, this paper warns about the monologue of modern reason applied to human beings and the world.