PHI 2394 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Causal Chain, Necessity And Sufficiency, Michael Polanyi
30 Oct 2018
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Responsibility and the scientist: no one wanted to talk about the pedophile priest. Everyone knew but didn"t want to talk about it. Just like no one wants to talk about science. Scientist did try to stop the bomb from dropping on japanese city: bring japanese ambassadors to a deserted island. Drop bomb on them and say see what i can do. All the credit but none of the blame. Scientist credited insulin which saved a lot of lives. In contrast, if a scientist created something that cost a lot of lives. Hannah arendt- 20th century german-american: the banality of evil, argued that systems which creates harm may not necessarily be not populated by terrible people. Ex, how nazi some of them were not bad. They just did their jobs and go home: good people working in a system. It is not a science that is to blame.
