If you really accept the practical version of the Orthogonality Thesis, then it seems to me that you can’t regard education, knowledge, and enlightenment as instruments for moral betterment.
I don’t? I mean, humans in particular are often irrational in antisocial ways (because it makes us better deceivers), and I think many (maybe most?) coordination problems result from people being stupid and not just evil. But it legitimately never occurred to me that academics believed that college makes its students more ethical people. That seems like a hypothesis worth testing.
I don’t? I mean, humans in particular are often irrational in antisocial ways (because it makes us better deceivers), and I think many (maybe most?) coordination problems result from people being stupid and not just evil. But it legitimately never occurred to me that academics believed that college makes its students more ethical people. That seems like a hypothesis worth testing.