FILOSOFIA E SCIENZA AD INIZIO DEL XXI SECOLO

Abstract

I. The relationship between philosophy and science is one of the central themes of Western culture, dating back to the physiology of the Pre-Socratics. This relationship involves another theme of enormous importance, consisting in the relationship between philosophy and theology, or between reason and faith, in a dimension that is, so to speak, secular. Philosophy represents the search for truth that human beings carry out through the organ of pure faculty. Therefore philosophy over time has always felt the need to face the results achieved by the physical-mathematical disciplines, based on the need to achieve the truth with the principles of observation and experiment too. At the beginning of the 21^st century or, if we prefer, the third millennium, the relationship between philosophy and science is essential, if, among other things, it is considered necessary to reflect on the connotation of philosophy and the sciences. In this historical context, the need emerges to reflect above all on the destiny of humanity, dominated by the barbarism of war and social inequalities.