Modernity: Process over Substance? 

Modernity: Process over Substance?

Tying together what I've said about punishment vs. retribution, and then the Schiavo case: I guess the genius of modernity has always been in putting process over substance. Instead of "what is the good/best life?," what is the soul, what is virtue, what does God want--the big substance questions which had caused instability, doubt, and wars--there is an emphasis on how to make progress that is more or less non-controversial, i.e. material comfort. Technology is more and more dazzling, but it notoriously answers the question of how, not why.