Re: When You Wish Upon the Pinhole in the Sackcloth which Shields Heaven from Our Sight/ Post Science

"God is Dead. Nietzsche is Dead. Now this."

Nietzsche may be dead, and many in the Post Modern theory business have used Nietzsche and his progeny to assert the slipperiness of ontology beyond what we experience, to the point that many NeoCons and Religious Right Wingers have started to ape the post modernist moves in their critique of the verifiable objective. This is a colossal misreading.

Consider this passage from Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography by Rudinger Safranski:

" 'Scientific Methods', Nietzche wrote in a fragment of 1877, 'relieve the world of a great pathos; they show how pointless it was for man to have worked his way into this height of feeling'. Although the sciences are also constrained by perspectives, they can be elevated above them. They broaden our outlook and enable us to see our own position in relation to the whole, not because science more closely approximates absolute truth, but for precisely the opposite reason-namely that passion, owing to its vigorous focus, posits itself as an absolute and admits of no alteration beyond that focus. Science, however, by dint of its methodical distance, keeps us aware of the relativity of knowledge [...]" (202).