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48 Scientism and Values 10. From the Preface to the first edition of The Critique of Pure Reason. 11. The General Theory of Value (Harvard, 1926, 1954), p. 115. 12. The edition from which this is quoted is a superb example of the art of translating and editing at its best. It is Greek Plays in Modern Translation, edited by Dudley Fitts (Dial Press, 1947). 13. Book III, ch. 37. 14. Book III, ch. 38. 15. Edward A. Shils and Henry A. Finch, eds., Max Weber on the Methodology of the Social Sciences (Glencoe: The Free Press, 1949), p. 83. 16. Ibid., p. 56. 17. Ibid., p. 24. 18. Ibid., p. 34. 19. Pragmatism (Longmans, 1943), p. 263. 20. Discourse on Method, Part IV. 21. Appearance and Reality (Oxford, 1940), p. 280. 22. Ibid., p. 282. 23. Science and the Modern W orId, p. 263. 24. Morris Cohen and Ernest Nagel, Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method (Harcourt, Brace, 1934), pp. 217 f. 25. A. J. Ayer, Language J Truth and Logic (Dover, n.d.), p. 41. 26. L. J. Henderson, cited in Talcott Parsons, Structure of Social Action (McGraw-Hill, 1937), p. 41. 27. Morris Lazerowitz, The Structure of Metaphysics (Humanities Press, 1955), p. 4. Lazerowitz uses the hunter story to illustrate what he characterizes as "a likeness between many philosophical views and grotesque fiction." The application of the story is far more general than Lazerowitz suggests. The quotation that we have given from Whitehead on the subjectivity of modern science is not only literally true of modern science, but very few people in either modern science or philosophy realize how deep the modern world is in the bog of subjectivity. 28. (Macmillan, 1947), p. Ill. 29. Page 4. 30. Author's Preface (Harper, 1944). 31. Appendix II, "A Methodological Note on Facts and Valuations in Social Science." Myrdal's argument in this note is sorely in need of extensive analysis. His superficiality is of a different type from that of Miss Benedict. He uses "science" to conjure with, just as Miss Benedict does. But unlike Miss Benedict, he sees the need for ethics in social science. Yet here also he conjures. His ethics, by his own account, has no mo{e relation to reality than do these marks on this paper. His "ethics" is entirely arbitrary. It is, of course, within the power of man to adopt an arbitrary "ethics," but it is not within his power to escape the consequences. We see Myrdal's superficiality only when we see that modern science has made the idea of objectivity wholly animistic and that arguments such as that of Myrdal can be used to justify Nazism just as well as what Myrdal argues for as the "American Creed." It is just about the worst thing that could happen for the less fortunate people of the United States and the rest of the world that the study of the
Objectivity and Social Science 49 problems of freedom and equality and justice should be conducted so regularly at the superficial level at which Myrdal was content to make his study. It is not possible to express a more severe criticism of social science than to say that social scientists generally are content to work at such superficial levels and seem unaware that there are any deeper levels at which work needs to be done.
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