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The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulder to mount on. Against this notion, Friedrich Nietzsche argues that a dwarf (the academic scholar) brings even the most sublime heights down to his level of understanding.
Der Soziologe Robert K. Merton griff das Gleichnis in seinem Buch On the Shoulders of Giants 1965 auf. In dem populären Klassiker der Wissenssoziologie verfolgt er das Zitat zu seinem Ursprung zurück. In seinem Essay geht es ironischerweise u. a. um die soziale Konstruktion von „Wissen“.
“We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.”
16. Feb. 2016 · For several hundred years, scholars of scholarship had considered that they might be like dwarves seeing farther by standing on the shoulders of giants, but they tended to believe more in rediscovery than in progress.
On the shoulders of giants. Meaning: Each generation builds on the knowledge of the one before. Background: This phrase is often attributed to Isaac Newton who wrote to philosopher and polymath Robert Hooke in 1676, "What Descartes did was a good step.
The shoulders-of-giants metaphor can be traced to the French philosopher Bernard of Chartres, who said that we are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and ...
Bernard of Chartres that the people of his time are like dwarfs seated on the shoulders of the ancients, who are to be regarded as giants. This comparison indicates the admiration and respect for the ancients that was fostered in the schools, maintained there, and instilled into the minds of students with varying forcefulness in
