Tags: philosophy, freedom Why Freedom is Unknowable and Enters Our Universe from Without For a century and a half, Western philosophy has been celebrating its victory over God.But having slain the dragon, it has grown to fear the sky itself.The transcendent has become the new taboo. The ultimate intellectual fear.And now, anyone who speaks of something "outside the system" is branded a heretic. Not by the Inquisition, but by a peer-reviewer in an academic journal.The result is a philosophy with its soul torn out—brilliant as a scalpel, and just as dead. It has locked itself within the material world, like a fanatic within his holy book. Two walls instead of one, but the prison is the same.This article is about freedom. Read more