The two-sphere structure of Greek thought [2013 (original) (raw)

We hope that you remember the two great events that we cited earlier, namely, the revolution in physics, the science of nature, in the early last century, and its anticipation at the hands of a physicist, who migrated to anthropology from his background in physics, mathematics and philosophy and geography, I mean, Boas. Later on another former natural scientist, with the same background in physics mathematics and philosophy, I mean Malinowski, migrated to anthropology and both became the joint author of a new concept of observation which is now commonly known as the participant observation. However, no sooner had Boas found, as we will see later, that materialist weltanschauung that might have been right for physics but was no more adequate in the study of human relations, and that the separation of subject and object was an a priori speculation which had no human experience behind it, the physics in revolution associated with the relativity and quantum theories discovered that such duality or absolute discontinuity between the two spheres of reality which the human subject and nature represented did not exist even in man's relations with nature.

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