The Mechanical Intimations of Lost Yearning

I want to write this in the future, so I will keep this here for now. I read maybe 5 pages of Plato's Phaedo and felt compelled to jot this down.

1. Western society is largely founded on a rationalist and materialist perspective of the world
2. Both perspectives require a common tradition of logical primacy.
3. What can be explained in a scientific approach is greater than that of a mystical, intuitive approach
4. This means that rigorous reasoning is often associated with material explanations: love comes from oxytocin and signals in the brain, depression is of low serotonin which can be fixed with SSRIs
5. That which can be observed is greater than that which cannot be observed
6. Unobservable things like God, transcendence, grace, and purpose are lesser than their psychological and sociological explanations based on the observed world
7. This leads to the reduction of unobservable things into theories and arguments
8. People are born in western society, but many of them still yearn for those unobservable things
9. Many search for those unobservable things through observable things, like obtaining purpose through quantifiable progress - promotions, job title, net worth, etc.