Twentieth-Century Scenarios and Phenomenological Premises
摘要
The Twentieth century is marked by the decline of definitive and irrefutable philosophical and scientific systems. Indeed, the very concept of scientific rationality – grounded in the logical nexus of cause and effect – enters into crisis in the wake of certain scientific discoveries. The millenary confidence in the continuity of natural phenomena (natura non facit saltus), as well as in the certainty of an objective knowledge of reality, gradually collapses under the impact of those discoveries which, from the first decades of the century, shattered the former physical systems of explanation of the real, all founded upon the postulate or principle of causality.