Mistrz i uczeń w czasach nauki masowej i skomercjalizowanej

Abstrakt

The character of the master–pupil arrangement was discussed as the elementary microstructure of the world of participants in the game whose aim is the scientific truth. A model of master and pupil's “contract” that is consistent with the essence of that game, and especially a list of rights that both sides of such a “contract” have were presented. University was pointed to as a typical institution that creates and perfects “master–pupil” arrangements. It was also pointed that such an arrangement is a little school of ethics, etiquette and epistemic, characteristic of the circles of participants in the game played for scientific truth. Threats were also discussed for the “master–pupil” arrangement that come from the “great science”, as well as from the “mass democracy”, “mass man”, “mass thinking”, “mass production” and “mass organisation” with inclinations for a “gardener's” understanding and treatment of social problems. Harmfulness of the advantage of the “superior–subordinate” arrangement over the one of “master–pupil” was mentioned as well as the threat to identity of the process of “rearing scholars” under the conditions of replacing the “master–pupil” arrangement with the one “patron–customer”. Finally, reasonableness of playing for maintaining the identity of chosen fields of the academic science was discussed, since what is called science is divided into those fields (also greatly corroded by now) and great areas of technology sensu largo. The presented considerations were linked to the question of crisis of the Western civilisation.