Aufsatz(elektronisch)1956

The Political Science of Science: An Inquiry into the Possible Reconciliation of Mastery and Freedom

In: American political science review, Band 50, Heft 4, S. 961-979

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Abstract

My intention is to consider political science as a discipline and as a profession in relation to the impact of the physical and biological sciences and of engineering upon the life of man. I propose to inquire into the possible reconciliation of man's mastery over Nature with freedom, the overriding goal of policy in our body politic.In the interest of concreteness I shall have something to say about past and potential applications of science in three areas: armament, production, and evolution.It is trite to acknowledge that for years we have lived in the afterglow of a mushroom cloud and in the midst of an arms race of unprecedented gravity. Here I shall support a proposition that may at first evoke some incredulous exclamations. The proposition is that our intellectual tools have been sufficiently sharp to enable political scientists to make a largely correct appraisal of the consequences of unconventional weapons for world politics.

Sprachen

Englisch

Verlag

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

ISSN: 1537-5943

DOI

10.2307/1951330

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