... more then mere numbers and data. Their abstractions, according to Hamann, tended to de-humanize people. In his Christian philosophy of science, Hamann made clear that Christians needed to avoid positivism, which taught that scientific knowledge was the only "true" knowledge. Naturalism and materialism were two Enlightenment ideals that Hamann would not buy into. Hamann, unlike the relativists of the Enlightenment ... ...

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