Working with a "scientific spirit" implicates refusing any and all compromising behavior with respect to society, morality, and practice.

This essay suggests avoiding elementary misunderstandings regarding the concepts of truth, knowledge, or reality. To be wary of our most deeply anchored metaphysical prejudices and to work for an authentic metaphysical knowledge; to move into an academic and democratic space of reason, by demonstrating that the ideals of truth and knowledge are not so much a shield or denial of life, but rather the best allies of our ideals of solidarity and social justice.