Electronic/World Wide Web>Internet Article: Wieseltier, Leon (September 3, 2013), Crimes Against Humanities Now science wants to invade the liberal arts. Don't let it happen., New Republic, Retrieved on 2013-12-10Source Material [www.newrepublic.com]
Folksonomies: science two cultures humanities Memes
10 DEC 2013
Appreciate the Beauty of Wrong Ideas
Pinker tiresomely rehearses the familiar triumphalism of science over religion: “the findings of science entail that the belief systems of all the world’s traditional religions and cultures ... are factually mistaken.” So they are, there on the page; but most of the belief systems of all the world’s traditional religions and cultures have evolved in their factual understandings by means of intellectually responsible exegesis that takes the progress of science into account; and most of the bel...
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Argument that just because an idea is overcome by events, does not mean we cannot appreciate it for its elegance and beauty.
10 DEC 2013
The Humanities are About "Inwardness"
It is the irreducible reality of inwardness, and its autonomy as a category of understanding, over which Pinker, in his delirium of empirical research, rides roughshod. The humanities are the study of the many expressions of that inwardness. Pinker’s condescension to the humanities is endless. He proposes for the humanities “a consilience with science,” but the only apparent beneficiary of such an arrangement would be the humanities, since they have nothing much to offer the sciences, which o...Argument for why they cannot be reconciled with science.
