Science’s takeover severed reflection from speculation and degraded both

Evidence

The separation of science from philosophy is itself a historical event. Aristotelian physics was a part of philosophy and, as such, preparatory to the “first science”—ontology. The Aristotelian concept of matter is distinguished from the Galilean and post-Galilean not only in terms of different stages in the development of scientific method (and in the discovery of different ‘layers” of reality), but also, and perhaps primarily, in terms of different historical projects, of a different historical enterprise which established a different nature as well as society. Aristotelian physics becomes objectively wrong with the new experience and apprehension of nature, with the historical establishment of a new subject and object-world, and the falsification of Aristotelian physics then extends backward into the past and surpassed experience and apprehension. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 680 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

To be sure, this is still the dictum of the philosopher; it is he who analyzes the human situation. He subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment—namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organization of society nor the transformation of nature. They were ineffective, unreal. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 496 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The science-philosophy split reflects differing historical projects, not progress — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 680; Scientific thought separated facts from values because philosophy’s values proved ineffective — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 496; Science became a productive force and ideology while its reflective disciplines were marginalized. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2746

Broader Connections

• The science-philosophy split reflects differing historical projects, not progress #corroborates (0.85) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 680
• Scientific thought separated facts from values because philosophy’s values proved ineffective #qualifies (0.80) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 496