Arthur Henry King; Shakespeare; King Lear; Brigham Young University
Description/Abstract
"The social sciences should not exist. And I'm grateful that there are people in the social sciences working to destroy them." This statement might easily be dismissed as rash and unjustified were the author of it not a world-class scholar, the quality of whose life-long study serves as an invitation to consider his reasons for making such a declaration. If, in the end, we cannot concur with Dr. Arthur Henry King's verdict on the ultimate value of the social sciences, might not his analysis of its problems give us a new perspective from which we might reevaluate it? Perhaps there is something in his critique that might lead toward better ways of achieving those ends most precious to us.