Experimental Philosophy

Newton was almost the last to consider his own endeavors as "experimental philosophy" and to offer his discoveries to the reflection of "astronomers and philosophers," as Kant was the last philosopher who was also a kind of astronomer and natural scientist – modern philosophy owes its origin and its course more exclusively to specific scientific discoveries than any previous philosophy.

That this philosophy, the exact counterpart of a scientific world view long since discarded, has not become obsolete today is not only due to the nature of philosophy, which, wherever it is authentic, possesses the same permanence and durability as art works, but is in this particular case closely related to the eventual evolution of a world where truths for many centuries accessible only to the few have become realities for everybody.

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ARENDT, Hannah, 1998. The human condition. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-02599-5, p. 272.