Draper, JW

Japanese: Draper,J.W.(英語表記)DraperJW
Draper, JW

...This is because science was considered to be self-evident, a privilege that is still commonly believed today, that it is a universal system of knowledge based on experience, which seeks out objective truth, and that it has a reliable predictive ability backed by mathematical methods. An example of this self-evident and most arrogant attitude is JW Draper's The History of the Conflict between Religion and Science (1875). Therefore, the search for data to trace the privilege of science in past history, or to find partial pieces of such a system in the history of other cultures, became an important academic goal in the first half of the 20th century, which inherited the movement of the 19th century. ...

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…なぜなら,むしろ科学が経験に基づき,客観的な真理を究める普遍的な知識体系であり,数学的な方法に裏打ちされた確実な予言能力をもつという,今日でも一般には信じられているその特権性が自明のものと考えられていたからである。その自明性を最も傲慢な態度であからさまにした例として,ドレーパーJ.W.Draperの《宗教と科学の闘争史》(1875)が挙げられよう。したがって,科学の特権性を過去の歴史のなかに跡づけ,あるいはそうした体系の部分的な一片一片を,他の文化圏の歴史のなかに発見するという,データ探しが,19世紀の動きを受けついだ20世紀前半の重要な学問上の目標となった。…

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