FIND: GENTILITY AND HONESTY (thank you Paul B ) —” The most novel and profound

http://www.amazon.com/Social-History-Truth-Seventeenth-Century-Foundations/dp/0226750191GREAT FIND: GENTILITY AND HONESTY

(thank you Paul B )

—” The most novel and profound thought I got out of the book was that a community, in order to doubt itself (science), must first trust itself (gentility). This was a broad principle that has opened my eyes – that the most creative minds actually come from within a position of extreme security.”—

—“Shapin argues that the validity and trust we place in today’s scientific endeavors evolved to a large extent out of the gentlemen’s codes of civility in 17th-century England. Science was a gentleman’s pastime, and when an idea was disputed gentlemen appropriated the civil codes of their time to solve the dispute. Shapin opens this book with a very complete and sometimes difficult-to-read introduction to the questions of what civility, truth, trust, and moral order are. The rest can be read separately as a history of gentlemanly conduct and gentlemanly science as a means of finding truth.”—

LIKE I SAID: WE DISCOVERED TRUTH. IT”S A NOBLEMAN’S VIRTUE