Metaphysical Theology and the Philosophy of Science with Dr. Paul Tyson

This episode suggests that different culturally assumed philosophies of matter produce different culturally assumed natural philosophies. This is illustrated three times in Western intellectual history. Firstly, a Platonist idealist philosophy of matter is integral with, and produces, the natural philosophy of Greco-Roman antiquity and Byzantium. Secondly, an Aristotelian hylomorphic philosophy of matter is integral with, and produces, the natural philosophy of Medieval Christendom. And thirdly, a modern Democritean atomism is integral with, and produces, modern science and technology