21st Century Philosophy

This is not the book you're waiting for

The Enlightenment promised to replace superstition with reason, tyranny with liberty, and ignorance with progress. Three centuries later, the results are in.

Democratic governments no longer represent their citizens. Economic models that predicted shared prosperity have delivered stagnation and debt. The scientific establishment cannot correct its own errors. The very philosophers who enthroned reason ended by abandoning it entirely. What we are witnessing is not the corruption of a good idea by bad actors. It is the inevitable collapse of a framework that was flawed from its foundations.

Veriphysics: The Treatise is a systematic diagnosis of that collapse and a rigorous description of what must replace it.

In three parts, Vox Day examines how the Enlightenment’s five core premises -- autonomous reason, sovereign individualism, mechanical nature, the fact-value distinction, and inevitable progress -- have each been falsified by the experience of history and by the findings of the sciences the Enlightenment itself celebrated. He then reconstructs the intellectual history of how a superior philosophical tradition, the classical and Christian inheritance, was outmaneuvered not by better arguments but by superior rhetoric, institutional capture, and the patient infiltration of universities, academies, and publishing houses over generations.

The final and constructive section introduces Veriphysics as a genuine philosophical successor: a framework built on Aletheian Realism, grounded in the Christian metaphysical tradition, and equipped with a concrete epistemological tool identified as the Triveritas. Any claim that cannot satisfy all three of its conditions -- logical validity, mathematical coherence, and empirical anchoring -- does not merit assent, regardless of the credentials of those asserting it. Applied to the crown jewels of Enlightenment thought, including the cogito, Darwinian evolution, classical economics, and social contract theory, the Triveritas serves as a wrecking ball. The math doesn’t work. The logic doesn’t hold. The evidence, honestly examined, refutes rather than confirms.

This is not for those who want their current assumptions confirmed. It is for those who have become aware that something is deeply wrong with the intellectual world they inherited, and who are willing to follow the path toward truth wherever it leads.

Authored by bestselling political philosopher Vox Day, also the author of the landmark science work Probability Zero, Veriphysics: The Treatise is a philosophical manifesto for the 21st century. Available on Amazon, Kindle Unlimited, and Audible.

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This philosophical treatise is just an idea I’d been working on for years that happened to coalesce when I was writing Probability Zero, Hardcoded, and The Frozen Gene. I’ve been putting parts of it up as posts on VP over the past few weeks and a number of people asked me to collect those posts together in an ebook. So I did last night, since I’m waiting for a few more early readers of Sigma Game to get their notes back to me before putting the final touches on it.

Anyhow, if you’re of a philosophical bent, or you want to know how civilized Man can cogitate himself out of the dead end that is Enlightenment thought, this is a reasonable place to start.