ABSTRACT
Although many scholars at the symposium thought that traditional ethics remained valid and could meet the new conditions imposed by our contemporary technological society or could be extended to cope with an age of pervasive technology, there were others who felt either that the older religious approach was irrelevant or that its practitioners could not make the necessary effort to develop an ethic adequate for our current problems. But instead of giving way to pessimism, Chanoch Jacobsen, senior lecturer in sociology at the Technion, spoke up for the development of a truly scientific ethic to be extended to social as well as scientific questions. Regarding science as itself a religion, Jacobsen called for the incorporation of traditional ethical principles into an expanded "religion of science.
