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It is no surprise, then, that this need to make reason or order from chaos lead not just philosophy, but to science too (29). History shows the continual efforts, through science, make ratio of chaos (29). Krieglestein talks about Descartes philosophy of rationalism, and Kants realm of necessity (29). Each of these men, like the ancients, was consumed with the need to make sense out of that which defied logic, in science and in philosophy
The Newtonian world view left its mark on sociology and psychology. Marxist sociology declared the human being a product of historical forces, while capitalism put more emphasis on the chaotic twists and turns of the marketplace to plot the way of the individual in history (28).
Mans efforts make sense from chaos has not ceased since the earliest days of man. This goes back as far as Gilgamesh, the ancient epic, that was written on tablets, and is believed to be about 2000 years BC. Like the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and into modernity, the ancients who scrolled the epic of Gilgamesh sought to make sense of chaos, and to provide some explanation, in the language of the moment, that the people of the moment

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