Education
Is Psychology Facing an Identity Crisis?
Psychology is caught between scientism and postmodern activism, creating unique fault lines within the discipline
Edwin E. Gantt
April 1, 2024
Psychology is caught between scientism and postmodern activism, creating unique fault lines within the discipline
How has scientism reshaped education? It strips facts of any meaning and turns learning into a soulless quest for power.
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One of the most fascinating rising Latter-day Saint philosophers sits down with Public Square Magazine to discuss consciousness, empiricism, and racism.
If we write off the Bible as irrelevant, we lose its proposals on meaning, purpose and self-worth. Other widely embraced answers, however, are despairing.
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Nietzsche once suggested Christianity is vulnerable to appropriation by lofty humanitarian aspirations. Are we falling into that tendency unawares?