from knowledge to wisdom...

science has been very successful at producing knowledge. but knowledge without wisdom, or science without civilization, is a dangerous thing, according to nicholas maxwell. and the reason we have the one without the other, he believes, is that science, as now practiced, does not question its own purposes or investigate its own presuppositions. it transforms the world but cannot transform itself. maxwell, a philosopher of science, argues that “we need a revolution in the aims and methods of academic inquiry, so that the basic aim becomes to promote wisdom by rational means, instead of just to acquire knowledge.” // how to think about science, CBC