Maxwell, N;
(2012)
The Menace of Science without Wisdom.
Ethical Record
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10 - 15.
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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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Menace of Science without Wisdom |
| Location: | UK |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.ethicalsoc.org.uk/spes/ethicalrecord |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Full text made available with permission from the South Place Ethical Society |
| Keywords: | Science, Wisdom, Global problems, Rationality, Social inquiry, Philosophy, Value |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Science and Technology Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1370624 |
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