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Excerpt from International Congress of Arts and Science, Vol. 2: Aesthetics and Mathematics, Comprising Lectures on the Relation of Aesthetics to Psychology and Philosophy, Problems of Ethics, History of Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century, Algebra, Analysis, Geometry, and Mathematical Physics
Nor does the way in which scientific judgments are elaborated give any rationale of the distinction between good and evil. If we ask of science What is good? It can give no relevant answer to the question. Strictly Speaking, it does not understand the meaning of the question at all. The ball has gone out of bounds; and science can not touch it until it has been thrown back into the field. It can say what is, and what will happen, and it can describe the methods or laws by which things come to pass; that is all; it has only one law for the just and the unjust.
But science is very resourceful, and is able to deal with judgments of worth from its own point of view. For these judgments also are facts of individual experience: they are formed by human minds under certain conditions, betray certain relations to the judgments of fact with which they are associated, and are connected with an environment of social institutions and physical conditions of life: they have a history therefore. And in these respects they become part of the material for science: and a description of them can be given by psychological and historical methods.
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