Springer, Date: 2011-11-24. 2012. Hardcover. Used:Good. 2011. Springer ISBN 1461412773 9781461412779 [US]

ISBN10: 1461412773, ISBN13: 9781461412779, [publisher: Springer New York] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - At both a micro-information level and a macro-societal level, the concepts of 'knowledge' and 'wisdom' are complementary - in both decisions and in social structures and institutions. At the decision level, knowledge is concerned with how to make a proper choice of means, where 'best' is measured as the efficiency toward achieving an end. Wisdom is concerned with how to make a proper choice of ends that attain 'best' values.At a societal level, knowledge is managed through science/technology and innovation. And while science/technology is society's way to create new means with high efficiencies, they reveal nothing about values. Technology can be used for good or for evil, to make the world into a garden or to destroy all life. It is societal wisdom which should influence the choice of proper ends -- ends to make the world a garden.How can society make progress in wisdom as well as knowledge Historically, the disciplines of the physical sciences and biology have provided scientific foundations for societal knowledge But the social science disciplines of sociology, economics, political science have not provided a similar scientific foundation for societal wisdom. To redress this gap, Frederick Betz examines several cases in recent history that display a fundamental paradox between scientifi ...
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ISBN10: 1461412773, ISBN13: 9781461412779, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover
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