On
the Crimes of Scholarship
Religion,
science and philosophy are human activities, and as such are complicit in the
virtues and vices of human politics. In particular, there have been many crimes
committed, and wars waged, for the sake
of religion, and by means of
science; but I have never heard of a single misdeed done, for the sake of science, and by
means of religion.
For
instance, curses do not work; and we know this because if they did then the DoD
would spend a billion dollars a year on them.
Philosophy
is innocent of both crimes. It has never inspired harm, or effectuated it.
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