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Full Idea
The inability of science to provide ethical wisdom is partly responsible for our resistance to the scientific image.
Gist of Idea
We resist science partly because it can't provide ethical wisdom
Source
Owen Flanagan (The Problem of the Soul [2002], p. 14)
Book Ref
Flanagan,Owen: 'The Problem of the Soul' [Basic Books 2003], p.14
A Reaction
This seems right. A.J. Ayer, for example, declared "I believe in science", and his account of ethics was vacuously nihilistic. A description of the mechanisms of moral life is not the same as ethical wisdom.