Hermann Hesse already created this title: "Magister Ludi" (Latin for "master of the game") in "The Glass Bead Game". --Mikhail ----- Original Message ----- From: Nicholas Thompson To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 1:34 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [632 Advisory] wordcrafting
David, This will bother me for the rest of the week! Best answer I can come up with is "Liberal Arts". It is embodied in our colleges and universities as wholes, but no longer in any of its individuals. Here is where St. Johns is the exception, where the quality you aspire to name, is supposed to be embodied in EACH member of that community, not just in the community as an aggregate. I will forward this to my son at St Johns and see if he has a comment or can send it to somebody who will. Perhaps he will forward it to the faculty at large, although I am not sure that bulk email is something they do. Nick > [Original Message] > From: Prof David West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 11/8/2007 9:56:00 AM > Subject: [632 Advisory] wordcrafting > > Gentlefolk, > > I need a word. > > > What would you call a discipline / degree / body of knowledge that > incorporated in a holistic and deeply integrated way the following: > art, humanities, anthropology, engineering, visualization, economics, > imagination, science, craft, computation, math, innovation, creativity, > entrepreneurship, business, change, transformation, transcendence, and > enlightenment? > > And, what would you call someone that had achieved mastery in that > discipline / degree / body of knowledge? > > Polymathics and Polymath come to mind, but Polymathics is incredibly > ugly as a word. > > Nexialism and Nexialist are terms used by A.E. van Vogt in 1950s > science-fiction novel titled Voyage of the Space Beagle (after the ship > used by Charles Darwin in his travels). > > Ideas?? > > dave west > > _______________________________________________ > Advisory mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://santafecomplex.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory_santafecomplex.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
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