Is there any thinker/scientist who ever explicitly say that knowledge/science/technology would liberate man from need, bring universal well-being or paradise on earth?
(Note: H.G. Wells said it about nuclear power in his book The world set free)
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1You can see Science, Epistemology and Metaphysics in the Enlightenment as well as Auguste Comte for context; but IMO it is not easy to find it explicitly asserted. – Mauro ALLEGRANZA Oct 11 '18 at 06:45
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@MauroALLEGRANZA, your links are not of help, but I found comte's "producers of dung" interesting, the more so , since when I google it to learn more, I got only a couple of hits, do you happen to know what it means?if you do I can ask a separate question – user157860 Oct 12 '18 at 06:52