Does knowledge require faith? | Carlo Rovelli, Philip Goff, George Ellis and Shami Chakrabarti
29Carlo Rovelli, Philip Goff, George Ellis and Shami Chakrabarti discuss the necessity and danger of belief in the 21st century.
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Once faith was revered. Now in a secular age, it is seen by many as an irrational dedication to an unproven belief. Yet science, Marxism, and liberalism, all rely on core beliefs that are unprovable. And to live without belief in anything at all would be considered empty and meaningless.
Should we accept that an element of faith is required whatever our perspective, and embrace the comfort and purpose that stems from unqualified belief? Or is this to undermine the very idea of knowledge and progress, heralding a world where evidence means nothing and only rhetoric matters?
#Belief #Reality #Knowledge
Carlo Rovelli is an Italian theoretical physicist who works mainly in the field of Quantum Gravity. Carlo's popular science book Seven Briefs Lessons on Physics has been translated into 41 languages and sold over one million copies.
Philosopher of consciousness at Durham University, Philip Goff's research focuses on integrating consciousness into our scientific worldview. Philip is a defender of panpsychism as the solution to the hard problem of consciousness.
George Ellis is a South African theoretical physicist who is considered to be a world leader in relativity and cosmology. The book he co-wrote with Stephen Hawking, The Large Scale Structure of Space–Time, examined the general relativity theory that was first investigated by Einstein.
Shami Chakrabarti is a prominent member of the British Labour Party, barrister, and human rights activist. She is well-known as the former director of Liberty, the organisation promoting civil liberties and human rights.
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