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发表于 2010-2-23 03:20:53
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到后面真开始胡写了,都可以当笑话看了
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TOPIC: ISSUE40 - "Scholars and researchers should not be concerned with whether their work makes a contribution to the larger society. It is more important that they pursue their individual interests, however unusual or idiosyncratic those interests may seem."
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As time goes by , the argument of interest allocation will never end. When the lovers argue about who should give more love or take more responsibly to each other , at the same time , the politician and economist will always argue that between individual and public who should be benefit most.
Now let's put this hot potato in to scholars and researchers hands , how dose these group of smart people barging between individual interest and society need ? To me, both the two side is crucial , one can never measure the weight different between the each side of the balance.
Firstly , let's think ourselves as those two main characters , can we keep on our research and investigation without interest and passion ? The answer is definitely not. It's not hard to imagine a mathematician sit in front of a desk all day long with just a pen and a few sheets of paper all by oneself , if he or she doesn't enjoy the beauty of math , how can a normal person bear such plain and monotonous life. So as the life of marine biologist who always spend a lot of time on the sea or remote island to get samples, and chemist who will spend thousand hours in lab for an experiment result . Life tough is part of the reason why we respect this occupation a lot . Everyone can have interest , but focus on it and even devote life time to it is just for someone , and the researcher and scholar absolutely belong to the second group. That passion and interest has made each dark night as beautiful as bright spring . Thus, the individual interest is the fundamental for researcher and scholars without it no work can be done.
Secondly , can researcher and scholars do their job without concern about the needs of society ? maybe this question is little hard to answer compare the first one . It seem that, indeed ,nowadays scientist do a lot of research which dose not matter to common people’s life , like to prove each number can be divided in to two prime numbers which is know as Goldbach conjecture and to study the component of the rock from other planet . How dose these work benefit the society ? All these doubt is reasonable , because one of the charming characteristics of research procedure is immeasurable, there are always full of surprise and this research can help us in the future . But no matter how unsociable a research can be , he or she is still a member of the society , the motivation of his or her work must come from the need of society directly or indirectly.
So the last question is if the researcher and scholar focus on their own interest means their less concern about the needs of the society? Is there any chance that the individual interest is match with public need? Can a person be happy without harm the community and even benefit the community ? yes , of cause yes ! As each individual is an element of the society , their interest stick together , if we look out any economic book , the principle will show us the most effective way to make the whole security maximize its utility is to maximize each individual’s utility , the best situation is know as Pareto Optimality which is defined as no one will get any better . Hence , for each research and scholar to peruse their own best interest is also contributed to the society.
In the end , the individual and collective exist at same time , there are not conflict ideas, so one can not easily judge which is more important. As the case of researcher and scholar , history already tell us how their work benefit our life , so let just granted they a little more trust , the treasury on their hands any way ,so let the man with money do the bargain . |
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