There is pure knowledge and there is applied knowledge. Applied knowledge (which I argue is actually 99+% of all knowledge in this multiverse that we or other sentients will ever acquire) requires many constructs, choices, and focii to even begin to gather the info and make sense of it. Meaning a core local construct of consciousness, of culture, and of one or more value systems are always present...whether implicit or explicit. And the explicit is far, far better...because then it can be examined rigorously and held to account. This is true for hard science, social science, and for all disciplines -- whether considered as science or art (philosophy, ethics, politics, governance, etc.).
Ultimately, for all knowledge we uncover or reveal, there is a foundational set of principles upon which any action or idea is performed or comes into being or is raised up and supported. Part of being human is contributing to and defining these foundational principles. Are they amoral and utilitarian (might makes right, ends justify means)? Or are they humanitarian and Gaian in the most fundamental of ways (many of which are as yet unrealised or unarticulated)? What will we do with our knowledge? What will we study and how will we apply our knowledge further? And why? To what end(s) and in support of what values and outcomes?
Amoral utilitarianism will never lead us in the same direction as humanitarianism. We must make choices with regard to our fundamental principles. These fundamental principles ultimately have a spiritual source -- that is they are timeless and unbounded even whilst they can be manifest in the material realm. Meaning, their manifestation in the material is realised only by the honing of our consciousness, both individually and societally or globally.
Peace & blessings
7L
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Bound by conventions, people tend to reach for what is easy.
Here we must be unafraid of what is difficult.
For all living beings in nature must unfold in their particular way
and become themselves despite all opposition.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke