eprintid: 1370624 rev_number: 46 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/37/06/24 datestamp: 2012-12-04 11:55:18 lastmod: 2020-02-12 18:08:12 status_changed: 2012-12-04 11:55:18 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Maxwell, N title: The Menace of Science without Wisdom ispublished: pub 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 verified: verified_manual elements_source: Manually entered elements_id: 831845 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 document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1370624/3/1370624_100%20Menace%20of%20Science%20without%20Wisdom%20Conway%20Hall.pdf