The sciences, both natural and human, are arguably the most objective areas of knowledge as they deal more in fact and observation, as opposed to the more opinionated and inference-based subjective areas of knowledge like faith and ethics. ... This of course is the study of Philosophy, made popular by Ancient Greek scholars and Enlightenment Era thinkers alike. ... It is then of the utmost importance that we use these two guiding philosophies to discover our one true place, and not to impatiently jam ourselves into the first free space we see. ...

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Scholars in many countries found it increasingly difficult to bridge the gulf between natural and supernatural, to reconcile natural law and divine providence, and to balance moral philosophy and spiritual virtue. ... Philosophes set out to get a few things out of the way, namely Christianity, not its ethics of love and brotherhood, but its supernatural history, theology, and church. ... Around this time Spinoza was expanding a philosophy deeply marked by natural science, which was incompatible with a literal belief in the Bible. ... He wrote on philosophy, science, music, and art, and wrote n...

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Religion is truly the science of ethics. Unless values and ethics are integrated in the social fabric, a society can abuse science and exploit the environment and the people. ... Swami Jitatmananda points out that nearly a century ago Swami Vivekananda predicted that "the conclusions of modern Science are the very conclusions of the holistic philosophy of Vedanta known as advaita formulated in India nearly three thousand years ago. ...

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Dewey believed that, between these two realms, is a void that must be filled by philosophy. "Philosophy is called upon to be the theory of practice, though ideas sufficiently definite to be operative in experimental endeavor." ... From this primitive force rise conspicuous cultural institutions that we mistakenly perceive as independent, e.g., government, the arts, philosophy, and religion. ...

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