Band 112
The Qualitative-Quantitative Distinction in the Social Sciences
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Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
25.12.2010
Abbildungen
VII, 236 p.
Herausgeber
B. Glassner + weitereVerlag
Springer NetherlandSeitenzahl
236
Maße (L/B/H)
23.5/15.5/1.4 cm
Gewicht
382 g
Auflage
Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st edition 1989
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-90-481-8460-6
Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors. So powerful was their identification with c1assification that ancient ideas were taken as keys to the design of the modem world, but usually the ideas were taken separately and as divided from their systematic context. The power of number was an idea the En lightenment thinkers deployed with their legendary passion and vigor, particularly as an instrument for social reconstruction. It is no exaggemtion to say that the role of quantities in contemporary social scientific theorizing cannot be understood with any depth absent a recollection of the philosophes' axial development of the notion of quantification. It is a commonplace that for the philosophes progress required releasing human abilities to have power over nature. Aprerequisite for this power was knowledge of the underlying causes of natural events, knowledge that required quantitative precision. Enlightenment thinkers were sufficiently aware of themselves as products of their time to appreciate the importance of a liberal social environment to the knowledge enterprise; the supposition that the reverse is also the case, that enhanced knowledge could advance social conditions, came easily.
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