Science as a Gateway to Understanding International Workshop Proceedings, Tehran, Iran (2008) / Chapter Skim
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1 Where Does Science Go?--Honorable Mohammad Khatami
1 Where Does Science Go?--Honorable Mohammad Khatami
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As the West was waking from the so-called Dark Ages and embarking upon the new world that was ushered in with the Renaissance in the fifteenth century and the Reformation in the sixteenth century, the tale of Johann Faustus was published in Germany. Faustus is the story of an alchemist who made a pact with the Devil to achieve all his worldly desires, but with the consequence of burning eternally in the fires of Hell.
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The western world fought back with an astounding modern technology, the atomic bomb, which ended the Second World War. However, those bombs did not kill Hitler, but rather decimated thousands of helpless civilian victims of the war.
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They rely on the false pride of their eighteenth century ancestors and expect the entire world to submit to their willpower and interests. They use whatever device they wish against those who oppose them, even when such measures violate contemporary ethics, law, and human rights.
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DISCUSSION Glenn Schweitzer: President Khatami, you have a great deal of experience with science that has caused problems throughout the world, and though you have underscored the misery caused by the misuse of science, you remain optimistic that science can be turned in the other direction as a force for good. In your opinion, how can the scientific community increase the positive applications of science while trying to reduce the bad applications of science?
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Our shared legacy of this violent technology is the ever-existing terrorism pervasive throughout the world, but in a much more dangerous form and on a much larger scale than ever before. Thus, the modern era has been plagued by violence and the kind of intense, impersonal aggression that would have been impossible and unthinkable for the generations preceding the twentieth century, and this plague has culminated in an explosion of fear, oppression, occupation, and terrorism.
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Thomas Jordan: You have introduced a new idea with the statement, "Security should be everywhere, or no place will be secure. Sustainable security will only be realized in the light of justice." The idea of sustainable security is an interesting one, and it would seem to many of us that this would require cooperation among nations, and in particular cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States.
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I, the easterner, have not seen much of western science and technology, and even less of western democracy. Instead, I, the easterner, have seen western colonialism and exploitation, the West's installation of corrupt dictators, and western support of coups d'état.
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