Publication date: 2022

DOI: 10.34069/AI/2022.50.02.4

The study analyzes scientific faith through the lenses of its scientific, cognitive, and social potential. The paper aims to study the role of secular non-religious faith in contemporary social processes and individual cognitive formation. The research methodology includes a systematic approach to demonstrate the relationship between an individual's cognitive settings and social reality; dialectical approach; analysis and synthesis. Results: the transformation of traditional social relations leads to the popularization of non-religious secular faith, especially the scientific faith, which motivates to unprovably accept scientific and pseudoscientific positions as true for gaining existential confidence. Scientific faith leads to the irrational acceptance of the scientific understanding of the world, the axiomatic base, and each specific theory, as the closest to the absolute truth, which provides the researcher with permission to use them. Conclusions: Scientific faith turns into a powerful social phenomenon, responsible for transforming the image of science in mass perceptions into the undeniable ideal of truth; this makes further scientific advances difficult.

Издатель: UNIV AMAZONIASEDE PRINCIPAL CALLE 17 DIAGONAL 17 CON CARRERA 3F-BARRIO PORVENIR, FLORENCE 00000, COLOMBIA

Тип: Article