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Modernity, in Kant’s and Foucault’s understanding, takes the doublet of a man as a central feature. Stemming from Humean skepticism and the ensuing epistemological crisis, Kant posited the Man in a perpetual oscillation between transcendence and empirical ‘reality.’ The history of social science from Comte and Marx to Weber and Durkheim is continuous reformulation of Kant’s epistemology. Comte and Marx tried to evade the epistemological problem of doublet by recasting human phenomena through specific nomos: Comte by projecting onto them transcendental humanity that is transhistorically applicable; and Marx by reducing them to empirical reality organized by specific nomos. Though Both succeeded to a certain extent in creating viable and practicable social science, they created a whole new problem of normative science. Rejecting such nomology, Weber and Durkheim tried to base social science on a different epistemological percepts by recasting the object of social science. Durkheim re-imagined human beings in proto-structuralist postulation, hitting a delicate balance. Weber, on the other hand, returned to the idea of civilization, while taking great cautions not to project evolutionary bias. Still, both of them could not completely escape Eurocentric underpinnings, because their recasting of men still followed the basic presupposition of modernity, which is in turn product of the European historical experiences.