TY  - JOUR
A1  - Maxwell, N
KW  - Science
KW  -  Wisdom
KW  -  Global problems
KW  -  Rationality
KW  -  Social inquiry
KW  -  Philosophy
KW  -  Value
EP  -  15
IS  - 9
Y1  - 2012/10//
TI  - The Menace of Science without Wisdom
CY  - London, UK
VL  - 117
N2  - We urgently need to bring about a revolution in the aims and methods of science ? and of academic inquiry more generally. Instead of giving priority to the search for knowledge, universities need to devote themselves to seeking and promoting wisdom by rational means, wisdom being the capacity to realize what is of value in life, for oneself and others, wisdom thus including knowledge, understanding and technological know-how, but much else besides. A basic task ought to be to help humanity learn how to create a better world. Acquiring scientific knowledge dissociated from a more basic concern for wisdom, as we do at present, is dangerously and damagingly irrational.
SP  - 10 
AV  - public
ID  - discovery1370624
UR  - http://www.ethicalsoc.org.uk/spes/ethicalrecord
N1  - Full text made available with permission from the South Place Ethical Society
JF  - Ethical Record
PB  - South Place Ethical Society
ER  -