Has music replaced religion for you?

[Haffner]

Hence, why we have no genius anymore. 19th century rationalism has turned into a cult of mechanics. Even human psychology is now relegated to a purely biological-mechanical process, which is why traditional psychiatry is becoming as unfashionable as philosophy did before that, while psychiatric drugs are all the rage. The human element of our existence has been obliterated and all we've been left with is emotional and physical gratification, which is the condition of the brute. Instead of progress, we are actually regressing to an animal existence.

This post might sound bitter to some (many?), but sometimes I wonder about this myself.

[Haffner]

Very nice. Might i argue that the poetic/artistic interpretation of human consciousness actually yields better results, and that Goethe knew more about human nature then Sigmund Freud ever could?

I've read quite alot of Freud, and in my opinion Kierkegaard, Hegel, Plato, Nietszche, Wagner, Husserl, and Schoepenhauer already came up with those ideas.

Again, this is only my opinion.

[Josquin des Prez]

This sounds very convincing, but it's basically a re-expression of the same idea that I found myself questioning earlier in this thread. There's an underlying assumption that objective statements about subjective experience have the last word; are the ultimate authority. So here we are, reading the statement that psychology supersedes 19th century philosophy as if that were the result of an advance in thinking, whereas actually it's the result of a fashion swing.

Nice.