Roush+Week+10+assignment

In Einstein’s letters to Freud, he shows his philosophical views which were expressed by the political actions he took during his life. When Einstein’s political actions are weighed against his scientific achievements, it seems like he should be remembered more for his activism than for his science, although I don’t mean to say that his science is in any way forgettable. The main reason why we don’t generally remember Einstein for his activism is because he was not nearly as successful an activist as he was a scientist. Another reason why we don’t remember Einstein for his politics is that politics can be and incessantly are debated by anyone, whereas science can only be debated by the most learned scientists and even they can only debate it to a certain extent. Science is seen as supposedly incontrovertible, whereas politics are pure opinion. Furthermore, people tend to mix politics into other aspects of life. For example, someone might disagree with Einstein’s relativity because they disagree that there should be a world government. Since science is supposed to be about incontrovertible logic, it would be paradoxical for a scientist’s ideas to be debatable. So we forget about Einstein’s politics and prefer to think of him as the pure and incontrovertible intellect.