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World Crisis, The - And What To Do About It: A Revolution For Thought And Action (Paperback)
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World Crisis, The - And What To Do About It: A Revolution For Thought And Action (Paperback)
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Science and technology have made the modern world possible, but
also created all the global problems that threaten our future: the
climate crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, mass extinction of species,
environmental degradation, overpopulation, lethal modern war, and
the menace of nuclear weapons. Nicholas Maxwell, world-renowned
philosopher of science and author of 14 books, argues that all
these problems have come about because humans have solved only the
first of two great problems of learning - how to acquire scientific
knowledge and technological know-how - but not the second - how to
create a civilized, wise world.The key disaster of our times is
that we have science without wisdom. At present, universities all
over the world are devoted to the pursuit of specialized knowledge
and technology, or 'knowledge-inquiry'. Maxwell contends that they
need to be radically transformed so that their basic function
becomes to help humanity tackle global problems, with a more
rigorous and socially beneficial perspective he calls
'wisdom-inquiry'. The World Crisis - And What to Do About It spells
out in detail the changes that need to be made to academic inquiry,
why they need to be made, and how they would enable universities to
help humanity actively and effectively tackle and solve current
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