Farhad zivyar; Seyyed Yaser Jebraily; Amir Etemadi Bozorg
Abstract
By exposing the shortcomings of science, Paul K. Feyerabend, questions the omnipotence of it and calls for the separation of society from science, just as at one time, with the help of science itself, society was separated from the church. Feyerabend calls for the establishment of freedom and pluralism ...
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By exposing the shortcomings of science, Paul K. Feyerabend, questions the omnipotence of it and calls for the separation of society from science, just as at one time, with the help of science itself, society was separated from the church. Feyerabend calls for the establishment of freedom and pluralism in society, and his pluralism is inspired by John Stuart Mill. The present study seeks to show that the pluralism of Mill is fundamentally different from the idealistic pluralism of Feyerabend. The pluralism which Mill presents is a means of discovering the truth, but for Feyerabend it is an end. We also show that Feyerabend, who opposes any universal criterion including science and rejects it as a myth, creates a new universal criterion which is "Majority Vote" to talk about the value system of his ideal society. Hence he fights one myth to make another.
