Modernity reconfigures possibility by displacing religious cosmoi with secular and scientific frames. Where earlier orders grounded human becoming in divine narrative, science and rational inquiry propose universes without transcendent anchors, shifting the horizon of meaning toward explanation, prediction, and technological intervention.
These horizons open immense new fields of possibility. Medicine, engineering, and information systems enable forms of life unimaginable in earlier epochs. Yet the secular-scientific cosmos is not neutral: it privileges certain ways of construing reality—measurement, abstraction, generalisation—while marginalising or delegitimising others, especially symbolic, ritual, or spiritual construals.
The effect is double-edged. Scientific rationality expands the scope of agency while narrowing the symbolic vocabularies through which becoming can be articulated. Possibility is reconceived as innovation, progress, and control, yet often at the cost of relational or cosmogenic orientations. Thus, the secular-scientific horizon is not simply liberating; it is a restructuring of constraint and potential, reshaping the very terms on which human possibility is lived.
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