Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerless to solve those moral and philosophical questions that interest cultured people so deeply.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.
We live in a world economically, socially, and culturally dependent on science not only functioning well, but being wisely applied.
Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.
And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.
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