Science and Morality
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 … […]
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[286] eerie landscape there dryads and satyrs, oreads … […]
Text Informations
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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DE | “Wissenschaft und Sittlichkeit” |
FR | « Science et moralité » |