The Effects of Values on Human Sciences

Values generally refers to what one ought to do, not to what exists. However, science is expected to explain existing realities and truths. Accordingly, it seems suitable to discuss nothing other than human phenomena and the real relation between them along with their principles and results in the realm of human sciences. The question that arises here is: how can a positive and causative relation be established between values and human sciences? The present paper tries to prove that some human sciences, such as ethics, essentially has a value nature, that other human sciences are influenced by values in determining the aims, and limiting the applied principles, and that the values accepted by the scholars of human sciences consciously or unconsciously exert influence on these sciences. Therefore, as researchers of human sciences, having different value attitudes, we have to comply with the different human sciences, as well.