Дилетантизм в науке

by Alexander Herzen, Александр Иванович Герцен

Авторский сборник статей: 1. Дилетантизм в науке. 2. Дилетанты-романтики. 3. Дилетанты и цех ученых. 4. Буддизм в науке. Впервые опубликованы в 1843 году.

108 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 3, 2014

About the author

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (Russian: Александр Иванович Герцен) was a Russian pro-Western writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism", and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism (being an ideological ancestor of the Narodniki, Socialist-Revolutionaries, Trudoviks and the agrarian American Populist Party). He is held responsible for creating a political climate leading to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. His autobiography My Past and Thoughts, written with grace, energy, and ease, is often considered the best specimen of that genre in Russian literature. He also published the important social novel Who is to Blame? (1845–46).

Reviews

[Solomon Selah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Crap. I now understand where Chinese Marxists' prejudice against Buddhism stems from. Of course, some might argue that Herzin was writing against Hegel's right wing, and Buddhism was merely a metaphor. But I must say, if Herzin did not genuinely understand Buddhism in this way, his critique is utterly powerless.

Beyond this, Herzin's position is clear: science provides a framework for explaining the “universal-necessary”; yet treating science as an end in itself is mistaken. Science must be transformed into action.