Title: From knowledge to wisdom
First published: 1984
Description: From Knowledge to Wisdom argues that there is an urgent need, for both intellectual and humanitarian reasons, to bring about a revolution in science and the humanities.  The outcome would be a kind of academic inquiry rationally devoted to helping humanity learn how to create a better world.  The basic intellectual aim of inquiry would be to seek and promote wisdom – wisdom being the capacity to realize what is of value in life for oneself and others, thus including knowledge and technological know-how, but much else besides.   
“There are altogether too many symptoms of malaise in our science-based society for Nicholas Maxwell's diagnosis to be ignored."
Professor Christopher Longuet-Higgins, Nature.  
"a strong effort is needed if one is to stand back and clearly state the objections to the whole enormous tangle of misconceptions which surround the notion of science to-day.  Maxwell has made that effort in this powerful, profound and important book."
Dr. Mary Midgley, University Quarterly.

"The essential idea is really so simple, so transparently right ... It is a profound book, refreshingly unpretentious, and deserves to be read, refined and implemented."
Dr. Stewart Richards, Annals of Science.
Subjects: Theory of Knowledge, Knowledge, Theory of, Philosophy, English Philosophy, Works, Science, Methods, Philosophy & science (incl. philosophy of science), Connaissance, Théorie de la, Théorie de la connaissance, Philosophie, Epistemology, Erkenntnistheorie, Weisheit, Wissenschaft, Rationalism, Objectivité, Sagesse, Science, philosophy, Humanities, Knowledge