Green Science

Here we explore the paths and pitfalls of what might be called "green science," describing a relativistic approach to knowledge, as opposed to a purely empirical approach.  While modern science recognizes the fact that there are many different ways of looking at the world, using empirical testing as a way to understand the overall system, healthy forms of green science include these systematic views, while holding them alongside multiple other systems.  Modern science was the first to properly differentiate art, morals, and science—though in the end, it tends to emphasize 3rd-person science over 1st-person art and 2nd-person morality, resulting in exactly the sort of materialism that green science tries to remedy.  But a relativistic approach to knowledge can become just as pathological when left to its own devices, as Ken Wilber discusses in this clip.