Re: [A-List] How "scientific" is science?

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> It appears that the limits of science were built into
> it from the moment of its inception. Science is
> objective, and it runs into its limits when it
> approaches anything subjective. Science has a very
> hard time tackling issues like hope and faith, and
> even the true purpose of biology: discovering what is
> life. We know what makes living things tick, but we
> have no clue what life really is.

In fact, dialectical-materialist science overcomes this
empiricist problematic, no matter how much bourgeois science
- -- or politix -- denies it.

There's no real crisis of Science. Only the crisis of
Capitalism.



> And now it appears that our scientific civilization
> has helped to create a crisis of objectivity. Science
> has allowed us to manipulate our environment to the
> extreme, but we lack the subjective empathy to
> understand when we have violated our environment and
> our fellow human beings. And this is at the crux of
> all our various problems: so long as we do not
> empathize subjectively with our environment and our
> fellow human beings, we will go on using them as we
> see fit for our own personal benefit.

(Short answer): The solution, as always, is Socialism.

- -- grok.



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