A friend shared this with me ... it opened the door for me to Bertrand Russell. Bari and others here may find this resonates with the finest aspects of the liberal tradition
Russell cautions that this shift from what he calls “love-knowledge” to “power-knowledge” is the single greatest hazard in the future of science, which is implicitly…
A friend shared this with me ... it opened the door for me to Bertrand Russell. Bari and others here may find this resonates with the finest aspects of the liberal tradition
Russell cautions that this shift from what he calls “love-knowledge” to “power-knowledge” is the single greatest hazard in the future of science, which is implicitly inseparable from the future of humanity. To protect science from such a shift, he suggests, is not only our duty but our only means of protecting us from ourselves.
A friend shared this with me ... it opened the door for me to Bertrand Russell. Bari and others here may find this resonates with the finest aspects of the liberal tradition
Russell cautions that this shift from what he calls “love-knowledge” to “power-knowledge” is the single greatest hazard in the future of science, which is implicitly inseparable from the future of humanity. To protect science from such a shift, he suggests, is not only our duty but our only means of protecting us from ourselves.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/05/08/bertrand-russell-the-scientific-outlook/