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creators_name: Maxwell, N
title: The Menace of Science without Wisdom
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divisions: UCL
divisions: A01
divisions: B04
divisions: C06
divisions: F58
keywords: Science, Wisdom, Global problems, Rationality, Social inquiry, Philosophy, Value
note: Full text made available with permission from the South Place Ethical Society
abstract: 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.
date: 2012-10
publisher: South Place Ethical Society
official_url: http://www.ethicalsoc.org.uk/spes/ethicalrecord
vfaculties: VMPS
oa_status: green
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Article
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lyricists_name: Maxwell, Nicholas
lyricists_id: ANMAX22
full_text_status: public
publication: Ethical Record
volume: 117
number: 9
place_of_pub: London, UK
pagerange: 10 - 15
pages: 6
event_location: UK
citation:        Maxwell, N;      (2012)    The Menace of Science without Wisdom.                   Ethical Record , 117  (9)   10 - 15.          Green open access   
 
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