metonymy4u

What students these days loose by not studying authors like Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, is an experience of reading texts in which the supposition is that the language of science and rationality could lead us back to god. The assumption was the opposite of what I think we see these days, that science and spirituality were not just compatible, but in some way made for one another. More tragically, they loose the chance to grapple with the implications of these assumptions, and see their own in a new light.