موازین ”درستی“ و ”عقلانیت“ در علوم اجتماعی

اخیرا در یادداشتی گفته بودم که در عرصه‌ فوق‌العاده پیچیده و بیقرار سیاست نه عالمان سیاسی، نه فیلسوفان سیاسی، و نه فعالان و رجال عرصه‌ سیاست هیچگاه نتوانسته‌اند و هیچگاه نخواهند توانست حتّی موقتاَ موازین ”درستی“ و ”عقلانیت“ را مورد اجماعی فراتاریخی و فرااجتماعی قرار دهند. در این مقاله می‌خواهم فراتررفته تبیین کنم چرا آنها و همچنین عالمان جامعه‌شناس و اقتصاددان هیچگاه نتوانسته و هیچگاه نخواهند توانست حتّی موقّتاً به اجماعی فراتاریخی و فرااجتماعی درباره‌ موازین ”درستی“ و ”عقلانیت“ برسند.

the standards of correctness andrationality in social sciences

in a previously published short article, i had simply remarked that in the extremely complex and fluctuating political arena, political scientists, political philosophers, political activists and politicians have never been able to reach a tentative trans-historical and trans-social consensus about criteria of “correctness” and “rationality”, nor can they. in this paper, i want to go further to explain why they, along with sociologists and economists, have never been able, and will never be able, to reach such a trans-historical and trans-social consensus. to do so, i have raised and tried to critically analyze the following questions:- what factors or causes have prevented social scientists and political philosophers from reaching, even tentatively, a trans-historical and trans-social consensus about criteria of “correctness” and “rationality”? - do social scientists and those active in the socio-political realm typically encounter the question of what the epistemological criteria of “correctness” and “rationality” are?- why do social scientists have typically no clear and articulated conceptualized understanding of the criteria of “correctness” and “rationality”?