Science and Morality

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I. The reversal of scientific and everybody knowledge

[268] The belief … […]

In reality … […]

These questions, however, are the ones without whose answer … […]

Trust in science is today so great … […] [269] progress or the saving of energy

The derivation of the … […]

They recognize the fundamental difference … […]

In our lives we are not dealing with two parallel … […]

Who, however, is to decide whether knowledge … […] [270] life of people – and recognize its truth as demonstrated … […]

We then clearly see the true meaning … […]

The true content of the claim we are confronting … […]

Does it know the cases in which … […]

Has it found the solution … […]

Sociology knows little or nothing about all this. […]

For this is what is crucial: without a knowledge … […] [271]

And yet, sociology's influence on the whole intellectual and cultural, political … […]

We are facing … […]

II. Scientific outlook and sociological laws

Although the question seems so clear sociology makes it difficult … […] [272] ethical prerogative of being seen as the sole representative of the solidarity of the solidarity interests of humanity.

The same hide and seek … […]

The inexhaustible magic box fools … […]

But a kaleidoscope … […]

This double game has first … […]

What might the true object of sociology be? […]

Up to now we have only touched the sphere … […] [273]

We have two references … […]

However, never has a discipline whose object … […]

Our twofold point of departure is in itself … […]

Laws and concepts … […] [274] sciences applied to the life of humanity. […]

Human life, however, is something personal and internal. […]

Science this passes necessarily … […]

Two paths were open to sociology … […]

Statistics let the countable and measurable come to the fore without … […] [275] completely losing sight of the individual. […]

The philosophy of history … […]

All disciplines, which merged into … […]

From its origin in the scientific world view … […]

The laws of large numbers stand in no specifiable … […] [276] from suicide statistics in deciding whether he should take his own life. […–

These laws that in any way have to do … […]

It is vain that the laws of the material-external … […]

Sociology is still far from being the astronomy of the human. […]

Contrary to all reason, however, … […]

More than the source of its influence, it is the manner of its impact that illuminates … […] [277] population, which … […]

Where games and ghosts prevail reason loses its right. […]

So it is with the truthfulness of laws when they begin … […]

The founders of sociology, still … […]

In order to become a positive science, sociology … […]

We have to ask to what … […]

III. The concepts of sociology: the external-material objects, social institutions and associations

[278] Generalization and objectification follow … […]

The external aspect … […]

The second group consists of social institutions. […]

Just as the transition from institutions to mere … […]

The third group, that of associations and clubs … […]

Let us now look at what … […]

The external-material, especially … [279] of production. […]

Precisely because … […]

For precisely … […]

This group certainly … […]

However, a more direct dependency … […] [280] example, the market, the corso, or public opinion. They lend … […]

However, their complete dependence on human … […]

This impression is augmented by the fact that the prevailing … […]

We have so extensively discussed the kind of dependency … […]

Sociology is right to invoke the fact that in many relationships associations of people are also independent of their will. The most important associations are … [281] given

Even where my free … […]

And if this can be so even … […]

IV. Alienation

Thus the idea of the individual … […]

All these assertions appear … […]

The unavoidable [285] contradictory way. […]

However, human self-interest and human … […]

A long road had to be travelled … […]

The natural laws of society … […]

A distinct mythology of the social world arose … […] and stone of this [286] eerie landscape there dryads and satyrs, oreads … […]

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Reference:
KPA: 01/53, 1-36 (36 hand-written p.), 37-66 (29 typed p. in German), 67-79 (13 hand-written p., translated in English) + 02/01, 1-70+121-161 (110 hand-written p.), 71-120+162-190 (77 typed p. in German), xxx (13 hand-written p. translated in English)
Recent Publication in English: in POLANYI 2017, p. 268-286 (transl. Eric Canepa)

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