Avançámos alguma coisa num século?

Uma breve adenda às considerações do camarada tr, ligeiramente alterada, e que espero construtiva para o debate:

"Part of the [philosophical] movements of [Irrationalism and Aestheticism] involved claims that science was inferior to intuition. In this project, art was given an especially high place, as it was considered the gateway to the "noumenal" [como em Kant]. Unfortunately, not all of the public at the time were involved in this movement and only elites -- a "Mandarin elitism" -- had access to the art"