SOC201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Presupposition, Scientific Progress, Axact
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People engage in doing things that never come to an end for practical purposes and technicam purposes (has meaning to practitioners), an academic man engages in science for science sake. For leo tolstoi death of civilizwed man has no meaning: because death is meaningless, civilized life is meaningless by its very progressiveness. Platos enthuasim in the republic is explained by that for the first time concept (one of greatest tools of scientific knowledge) had been consciously discovered: socrates was one of the men who discovered this. Second great tool of scientific work was the rational experiment during the renaissance period -> reliably controlling experience. Science today is irreligious; redemption from rationalization and intellectualism of science is fundamental presupposition of living in union w divine. The general presupposition of medicine is to maintain life but what if sufferer wants to die: aesthetics doesn"t ask whether their should be art; jurisprudence doesn"t ask whether there should be law.
