Science was framed as replacing religion by giving humanity its definitive self-explanation

Evidence

For instance, originally all cognition appears to have been a means in the struggle for existence. Exact knowledge of the behavior of things is, in fact, of extraordinary utility for the maintenance and promotion of life. Yet cognition is no longer used in the service of this practical achievement: science has become a value in itself. It quite autonomously chooses its ob- jects, shapes them according to its own needs, and is interested in nothing beyond its own perfection. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2032 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Science became an autonomous value detached from its survival origins — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2032; Scientific rationalism shades into the very faith it claims to dismiss; Monotheism inadvertently created the cognitive conditions for atheism and science. (+3 more)

Related

• Science became an autonomous value detached from its survival origins (similarity 0.85)
• Scientific reified models acquire objective power over humanity’s self-conception (similarity 0.81)
• Progress fails when its standard bearers become part of nature (similarity 0.80)
• Science presents itself as universal and culture-free but is itself a cultural discourse (similarity 0.80)
• Established science rationalizes the prevailing world without altering its existential structure. (similarity 0.79)
• The sciences of man became possible only when measurement displaced ancestral status (similarity 0.78)
• Science’s takeover severed reflection from speculation and degraded both (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Science became an autonomous value detached from its survival origins #responds-to (0.80) — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 2032
• Monotheism inadvertently created the cognitive conditions for atheism and science. #complicates (0.75)
• Scientific rationalism shades into the very faith it claims to dismiss #qualifies (0.72)
• Decentering the subject displaces humanity from the origin of meaning #expands (0.72)
• The disenchantment of the world removed the limit God placed on human mastery #expands (0.70) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 619