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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 1. Aims of Science

5334	We resist science partly because it can't provide ethical wisdom [Flanagan]
	Full Idea: The inability of science to provide ethical wisdom is partly responsible for our resistance to the scientific image.
	From: Owen Flanagan (The Problem of the Soul [2002], 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.