The similarities and differences between the sciences and the arts as intellectual discipline
Date Submitted: 02/26/2004 07:10:32
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 9 pages (2347 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 9 pages (2347 words)
During the course of this essay, I will attempt first to criticise science and scientists and show the arrogant assumptions that are made about science. I will then discuss the similarities between arts and sciences in the light of my criticisms, and finally look closely at the many differences between arts and sciences. There are several different criticisms that have been commonly levelled at science and scientists as a whole. I shall begin by attempting …
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…essentially in what they deal with as a discipline. Science is essentially concerned with understanding, whereas the arts are more concerned with perception. This is the fundamental difference between the sciences and arts as intellectual disciplines, and although there are many comparisons to be drawn between to two intellectual disciplines due to their common dependence upon the frailties and faults of human nature, they are never the less essentially different in what they concentrate on.
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