Titlebook: Science and Enlightenment; Two Great Problems o Nicholas Maxwell Book 2019 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switze

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Learning About the Universe and Learning How to Create Civilization,ts to our failure to solve the second great problem of learning—learning how to become civilized. Our future is in peril as a result. What we need to do, in response to this unprecedented crisis, is learn from our solution to the first problem how to solve the second one.

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The Enlightenment and the Romantic Opposition,reate an enlightened world by means of science and reason—was opposed by Romanticism. Whereas the Enlightenment stressed the importance of science, knowledge, reason, method, objectivity, logic, evidence, Romanticism stressed the value of art, self-expression, personal feelings, experiences and intu

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The New Enlightenment and Academic Inquiry,omes a basic objective of academia. ., we adopt the much improved conception of scientific method of aim-oriented empiricism, which recognizes that problematic metaphysical assumptions are inherent in the aims of science, and provides a meta-methodology for the improvement of the aims and methods of

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How Would Wisdom-Inquiry Help?,basic task would be public education about what our problems are and what we need to do about them, conducted by means of two-way discussion and debate. All these activities could have a major impact on the capacity of people to grapple successfully with the global problems that confront us. None of

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Summary and Conclusion,ment and the Counter-Enlightenment)—is damagingly irrational. We urgently need a new, more rational kind of inquiry, free of the blunders of the traditional Enlightenment, which takes, as a basic task, to help us build into the human world the progress-achieving methodology of aim-oriented rationali

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Book 2019 inherited from the Enlightenment, and we would have what we sourgently need: institutions of learning, universities and schools, rationally designed and devoted to helping us resolve our conflicts and global problems, and thus make progress towards a good, genuinely civilized world.  .Science and E

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