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A 3 page paper which examines the problems scientists have when their ideas conflict with society, using the life of Galileo, as told by Bertolt Brecht, as a foundation for discussion. No additional sources cited.
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an individual. There are those, some great, who are driven to find some truth in life no matter the consequences, even if those consequences be death. In Bertolt Brechts Galileo
the reader is presented with a man who is driven to seek scientific truths, while also working with the society/Church that would berate him for his studies and findings. The
following paper utilizes the story of Galileo by Brecht as a foundation for discussing the difficulties of scientists who seek the truth when it conflicts with the ideas of the
society. Galileo by Bertolt Brecht Brechts play actually comes in apparently two forms, an earlier version and another version which he revised after the bombing of Japan. In
his original play the ending was different, and with the revised Brecht apparently did not recant his ideas. However, whatever version one reads it is apparent that Galileo was a
great thinker, and a very passionate and determined man when it came to seeking truth. The difficulties existed in Galileo trying to figure out how to make his findings
known without disrupting the society/Church, giving the people a truth while also remaining free to continue his scientific studies. As written in the work, "we must proceed cunningly" (Brecht; Bentley
150). This is because society, in Galileos case the Church, which was the society, has its own ideals that it feels are to protect and direct the people. such ideas
as Galileos were dangerous to that ruling society for it would perhaps give people the belief that God was not the only answer to every question. Although the Church was
interested in science, it was only interested in science to its own ends, not to the ends that would involve truth. Throughout history people have struggled against a society
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