This-essay is a8008151.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTS 800815 Alienation results when the central concepts of the physical science are permitted to dominate inter personal relationships. The concepts which promote understanding of and the ability to control physical processes--- occasion misunderstanding, rebellion, and alienation when attempts are made to use them as the basis for understanding of and controlling inter personal relationships. Concepts which promote understanding within one context often occasion misunderstanding if respected outside the context in which they have been proven helpful. We need to be careful not to ascribe to concepts the power to promote understanding outside the contexts in which personal experience has proven them to be helpful. It may be helpful to advance the HYPOTHESIS that a concept found useful in one context may be proven useful in a quite different context---a context which future insights may show to have features in common with the one where the concept has been proven useful by personal experience. The proof of the HYPOTHESIS, however, must reside in personal experience, not in authority, political power, threat, fear, etc. For this reason scientists must be free to share personal experiences which are the ultimate basis for testing hypotheses. The repression of the sharing of personal experiences and insights will not promote the recognition of faulty hypotheses for what they are. For this reason the motives of those who promote the repression of the sharing of personal experiences should be carefully examined. The purposes of the concepts which dominate the physical sciences tend to be inappropriate in the context of intimate personal relationships: analytic understanding, prediction, utilization, systematic planning, control, etc. Given the appropriate differences in purposes in the contrasting contexts---it is natural that differing concepts play central roles in promoting helpful relationships. The values which are central to successful scientific research in the physical sciences---are values which tend to occasion alienation if they are permitted to dominate in the contrasting context of intimate personal relationships. In fact, if such values dominate the lives of people---those people are unlikely to have intimate personal relationships or understand those who enjoy them. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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