Features of Modern Science; with emphasis on humanities

The present inquiry aims at investigating the features of modern science from different aspects, including its aim, method, application, and impacts. The method of research is descriptive and analytical. This investigation, on the one hand, defines the identity of modern science and makes our understanding about it more exact. On the other hand, it exposes its essential difference and contrast with Islamic sciences. Meanwhile, it reveals some of its serious shortcomings. Radical rationalism, dominance of sense-knowledge and empirical knowledge, materialism and secularism, neglecting the end of existence, considering religious and philosophical propositions as nonsense, separation of knowledge and value, of knowledge and religion, and of knowledge and politics which serves as an instrument in the hands of politicians, omitting scientific certainty and relying solely on psychological certainty, seeking power instead of finding the truth, particularism and differentiating the sciences, are features of modern science which are investigated in this study.