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Here we go again. May as well lock the thread right now!
What has science, the exploration of material existence, to do with ethics, which involves the rights and wrongs of human behaviour? Absolutely nothing as far as I can see.
And what is philosophy? It's generally called the love of wisdom, and wisdom is generally called sound judgement. That is, sane, logical, intelligent perception.
Life is greater than all these divided compartments Each compartment is separate from the others, science, philosophy and ethics. As they exist they are branches of knowledge. But knowledge is only a part of life. And we can add to that all the other innumerable branches of knowledge.
None of these is an answer to life. Not even if all were taken together is knowledge an answer to life because knowledge is always partial and life is always new.
Apparently the issue, as stated in the linked article, is:
'science falls short of explaining this natural order and why it exists in the first place'.
Then it says:
'This is where philosophy comes to the rescue'.
Of course it doesn't, that's a ludicrous statement. If all we had to do is read up a lot of philosophy to find the answer to the question 'why' we'd have resolved the whole thing a long time ago.
We ought to be asking ourselves WHY none of these things don't answer the question. But we know why, because knowledge, no matter how extensive, is not an answer to life, and life is the issue.
By 'life' I mean everything, all existence, not just our own little, rather shoddy, daily affairs. No knowledge can encompass that, it's too vast, immense, immeasurable. It's beyond the limits of science and beyond the measure of words.
So it's back to the old chestnut 'Why does anything exist?'. Answer: because it does, so we may as well get on with it.
Then there's the question of the mind. The mind now is essentially the thinking principle and all thought is limited to what it knows. No thought can function outside its knowledge; the two are the same. But when the mind is not the slave of knowledge then it can enter realms beyond all knowledge. This is a fact.
That's the only way human beings can discover the real truths of life, the actual nature of existence. And none of that may be 'provable' in the sense we normally mean it.