Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Science and Ethics in Revolution
I found this really interesting article about keeping ethics present in scientific revolutions, and how the notion of not prioritizing ethics is unimaginable. Even the most technical scientific ideas have humanitarian elements that cannot be ignored. At first I found this article to be abstract because it was linking ideas such as inertia to human existence and ethical reflections. The article, however, proved to me that these ideas are not that different and integrate together beautifully. The fact that I thought the ideas too different to be joined speaks to the separation of science and humanities present in society today.
Article Link: http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/10/3933/
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I agree with you Emma, the humanities and hard sciences are very separate. Just look at Mines' curriculum! And from discussing with my friends who attend other schools, Mines' curriculum is not an outlier. The sciences and humanities are taught as separate item, which I find odd.
ReplyDeleteI understand the trouble of trying to sew humanities and sciences together, for politics, minor and major human differences and a myriad of other obstacles would easily get in the way. But if anything, the hard sciences and humanities are connect due to the interconnecting factor of humanity.
It seems to me, that this article has provided in detail the last largest scientific revolution at which inertia lies at the heart of it all. The article also strongly hints at the next scientific revolution, which will be a re-emerging of ethics and scientific reasoning.
I wonder if the next scientific revolution will also be a humanities revolution, where a system of some sort will show that humanities and the hard sciences have a lot more in common than previous modernistic thought.
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