I am asking this question because in the philosophy discussions of the present time there appears to be scientific enquiry on one hand, and the views expressed in the arts falling into another category. — Jack Cummins
"The Two Cultures" is the first part of an influential 1959 Rede Lecture by British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow which were published in book form as The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution the same year.[1][2] Its thesis was that science and the humanities which represented "the intellectual life of the whole of western society" had become split into "two cultures" and that this division was a major handicap to both in solving the world's problems.
Thanks for your link to wikipedia but I do think that wikipedia is only a basic discussion and I was hoping that this site is able to go a bit deeper in philosophical exploration. — Jack Cummins
I do appreciate that you gave a link to many references but what you did in giving me a link is exactly the way I described in the bad arguments thread today. — Jack Cummins
Strictly speaking, I was not referring to the humanities when speaking of the arts, but art, literature and music. Of course, it is a whole spectrum with humanities and the social sciences. In this respect, I think that psychology is fighting its way to claim its places in the realm of hard sciences.
Having written my post, I kept seeing more 'scientific' posts popping up. Then, the one on liking music sprung up like again. The arts cannot be suppressed.
What I am really saying is that it sometimes appears that the sciences are seen as superior. Are the arts just relegated to the domain of pleasure. I am querying the scientists claim to a monopoly upon truth.
Are the perspectives of Shakespeare, Salvador Dali to be thrown into the bin of human culture, along with the creative thinkers going to be dismissed as inferior in the search for wisdom and truth? — Jack Cummins
Gadamer presents some interesting ideas about art in Search for a Method. — Pantagruel
Gadamer draws heavily on the ideas of Romantic hermeneuticists such as Friedrich Schleiermacher and the work of later hermeneuticists such as Wilhelm Dilthey. He rejects as unachievable the goal of objectivity, and instead suggests that meaning is created through intersubjective communication.
So, really I don't have any long lasting bad feelings towards Fishfry — Jack Cummins
What I am really saying is that it sometimes appears that the sciences are seen as superior. Are the arts just relegated to the domain of pleasure. I am querying the scientists claim to a monopoly upon truth. — Jack Cummins
I am trying to look at the whole issue of the competing truths of the sciences and arts for the paradigm underlying the the bias of many philosophers. — Jack Cummins
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