This chapter considers modern philosophy in the context of Aristotle’s critique of ancient philosophy. Modern philosophy is divided into a metaphysical philosophical tradition and a pragmatic anti-philosophical tradition. The latter is the philosophy that gives rise to reductionism, the reduction of meaning to the conclusions of science. In all cases we find the same fracturing and partiality of thought as previously witnessed—one perhaps consequential to the thought process itself—that was peripatetically reconstituted into a complex whole by Aristotle through his logic and metaphysics. I ultimately show that the split within our modern philosophical landscape between idealists and empiricists replays Plato’s myth of the Battle of the Gods and Giants, written at the dawn of our intellectual history. The more things change, the more they stay the same…