Aurora and Centaur: Reality and Description in the Age of Technology

Our era is characterized by enormous technological developments. Only a thorough analysis of current scientific thinking will be able to show which aspects of it will be beneficial for future civilization. The humanities and natural sciences must engage with each other in order to regain access to the reality of a world that today, under the demands of progress in the “positive sciences,” has been reduced to mere linguistic descriptions, largely in the form of algorithms.

Aurora and Centaur endeavors to reconstruct the epistemology of Goethe’s world view, as elaborated by Rudolf Steiner, in order to combine the rigor of the positive sciences with the creativity typical of the arts. In doing so, Steiner paved the way for the development of a new form of science that is capable of grasping different levels of natural being, including life itself, based on the free activity of the experiencing subject.

“With its chronic replicability problem, John P. A. Ioannidis’s famous paper ‘Why most published research findings are false,’ and books with titles like Why So Much of Science Is Wrong (Barrie Condon), materialist science is clearly experiencing a possibly terminal existential crisis. Drawing on the neglected scientific studies of Goethe and Rudolf Steiner, this important paradigm-busting book presents a path towards a properly founded holistic science that transcends the intrinsic limitations of materialism and narrow scientific positivism. A must-read for all open-minded scientists, and philosophers and sociologists of science.”
– Richard House Ph.D., co-author of Beyond Mainstream Medicine and editor of Humanising Science and Medicine: Critical Paradigmatic Conversations

Laura Borghi is a physician and specialist in biochemistry and clinical chemistry. She collaborated with Weleda Italia as a consultant and scientific director.

 
Daniele Nani is a physician and specialist in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine. He has published numerous works of both scientific and philosophical content along the lines of epistemology. They are both founding members of Imago Proxima Centauri, a non-profit medical association with the aim of promoting and safeguarding the freedom and autonomy of cultural life, particularly in the fields of health and medicine, following the principles of anthroposophical spiritual science as developed by Rudolf Steiner. They have medical practices in Milan.