Jaime Roberts
1 min readMar 18, 2023

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Let me make the counter argument. By not following Aristotle today, we doom the world of science with no moral compass. And it is this science which will destroy humanity.

Look at the atomic bomb, destruction of the environment, the horrors of two world wars brought on by science's discoveries, but without the moral foundation to use these discoveries for the betterment of humanity.

What about today? We have no value system to gauge good technologies from bad. Gain of function research? Artificial intelligence? Destruction of the environment? There is so much technology in our modern world that needs to be analyzed through a moral framework. By abandoning Aristotle, we doomed humanity to be unable to analyze science and technology from a moral point of view.

Note: (Of course none of this comes from Aristotle directly, but actually the abandonment of the Scholastic method in the Renaissance. This was due to knowledge fracturing into 'Moral Philosophy' of the church and 'Natural Philosophy' of science not controlled by the church. )

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Jaime Roberts
Jaime Roberts

Written by Jaime Roberts

Architect writing about environmental design in an age of climate change.

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