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 -