The human science tradition is often overlooked or ignored when the word “science” comes up in history or
discussion, but has an extensive history of its own, depending on where you start it, at least as early as the late
1800s/early 1900s with Wilhelm Dilthey’s distinction between the natural sciences (Naturalwissenschaften) and
the human sciences (Geistewissenschaften). Even today, the human sciences are called “soft” sciences,
privileging the more “hard” natural sciences. This “politic” of soft and hard, weak and strong thought, has very
significant impact on how we care for others and to what we attend. How could the human scientist argue for
an equal place setting at the communion table with the natural scientists today, and where would you address
the history of these collision of values and how they became lopsided?
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