Is Science Value/s FreeSami-ud-Din

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities

Riphah International University Islamabad

sami.uddin@Riphah.edu.pk

+92-333-5952403

Sociological definition of Value/s

Values are traditions upon which people act from time immemorial. Which are observed as an act of reward and are considered as good.

Economic definition of value

In economics’ terms value can be defined as capital or asset that can be accumulate/ hoard or spent to buy goods or services. In economics’ view point value can be perished, increased or decreased.

Science and value-freeing discussions

About some scientific assumptions it can be said that they are no more realistic but only to create monetary value by their introducers. These may be done only for social value or social fame. Like under Social Darwinism, only the people belonging to the Western-Hemisphere are humans because their average brain volume is 30 cm³. while the average brain volume of the people of the Eastern Hemisphere is 28cm³ and they are below degree of human being. This materialistic or bias approach mad some of the scientific theories as controversial in conception.

The domains of science and values

According to Poincare 1920/1958:12 science and values have their own domains which touch but do not interpenetrate each others.

Science Values

How science and values interact in developing mankind?

Is it genuine to ask about mankind development? Does mankind need any more development? Is mankind already developed? How to develop mankind? What areas or aspects of mankind are to be developed? Who will develop mankind? Does the developer not a mankind? If yeah then how a mankind will develop another mankind? If not then who does develop mankind?

Monopolization of scientific knowledge

Is it moral to have monopoly over scientific knowledge? Is it moral to lend/sale to a particular group of people or to a region

or territory? What is the moral place of patents’ rules and copy rights? Is it moral to restrict scientific knowledge to a particular region or

group of people? What if scientific knowledge is not obtained through the

contemporary means and measures? What about the morality of purchasing scientific knowledge?