How Did We Get Here?: Ghost in the Machine

Name: How Did We Get Here?: Ghost in the Machine
Start: 2024-10-17T18:30:00-06:00
Location: Reeder's Alley

Schedule

Thu Oct 17 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Reeder's Alley | Helena, MT

Until roughly the 16th century nearly everyone in Western Europe took for granted that they lived in a cosmos teeming with a wide range of spiritual beings. Then, the story goes, everything changed, as the Scientific Revolution cast out all these intermediary spirits, leaving a cosmos that resembles a collection of inanimate machines, rather than an ecology teeming with living agents: a process which the pioneering sociologist Max Weber famously termed “the disenchantment of the world.”
In this evening’s "How Did We Get Here?" philosophy program led by David Nowakowski, we’ll consider this process of disenchantment within its historical context and its consequences.
6:30pm-8pm in the Reeder's Alley Conference. FREE. Donations always appreciated.
Learn more & RSVP here: https://merlinccc.org/event/philosophy-merlin-shorts-how-did-we-get-here-ghost/