Institutions that engage in science do have undeniable ties to political, economic, and military power structures, and other valid means of power. Science studies are the product of language, and all language is essentially ambiguous, although scientists endeavor to reduce this ambiguity as much as possible, unlike creative writers and often even academics in the humanities.
With developments in the natural sciences; he does not concede, however, that this requires placing the study of the process by which scientists reach their results at the center of the curriculum. Human nature includes instincts for a sense of beauty and a sense of conduct, Arnold asserts; knowledge of the natural sciences, although very useful and certainly a necessary component of education, does not appeal to these instincts. Arnold prefers a humanistic education not because of any inherent inferiority of intellectual rigor in scientific persuits or in the knowledge thus acquired, but because he considers the latter incapable of stimulating aesthetic and moral drives fundamental to human nature.
Undermine his newly created symbolic language and support his conclusion that the mystical is inexpressible. He writes, “it is clear that ethics, cannot be put into words. Ethics is transcendental” (Tract., P and M 86). No language can address ethical questions; instead they lie outside the realm of language.
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