ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF MEANINGS OF SUBJECTIVITY IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

Abstract

Introduction Science and Technology vs. Holistic Wisdom There have been attempts to get rid of monism in the outlook on the world (die Weltanschauung) which includes human wisdom, in concert with decentralization and diversification in the power structure of politics and economy. It is certain that at least people in Western civilized nations have been enjoying a material life richer than before, thanks to the wisdom of “Cartesianism” and the subsequent experimental knowledge and technology. However, in the midst of a deadly impasse which is accompanied by the fear of nuclear warfare, environmental disruption, increase in entropy, racial prejudices, increasing disparity in wealth, alienation of human beings and so on, the Utopian idea that “technological innovations equal the progress of mankind” must now be thoroughly criticized. Science, which forms the very basis of technology is knowledge, not wisdom. So it is of vital importance to review such an idea thoroughly in the light of “holistic wisdom”, bearing in mind this aspect of modern civilization which was built on the basis of science and technology as tools. What is the most important with a tool is how to use it. The value of a tool is determined by how a man with established identity will use it.

Citation

Nato, T. (1989), "ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF MEANINGS OF SUBJECTIVITY IN SOCIAL SCIENCES", Humanomics, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 20-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb006088