Dave,
The University of Texas at Austin's Liberal Arts school has "Plan 2"
which provides a multidisciplinary education from art, through
philosophy and science, etc.. If your BOK goes further you could call
it "Plan 3"?
Other more serious ideas: polytechnology, pantechnology, gnostology,
holistology and omnology. There is a piece on Omnology by Bloom at
http://www.entelechyjournal.com/howardbloom.html perhaps it will
resonate (and I thought I'd come up with the word.)
I suggest an '-ology' because '-ologists' are easy to see. There's
little sign of anyone using 'holistology', my second choice.
"Omnologist"seems to come off the tongue fairly easily, though it lends
itself to: "What do you do for a living?" "Om... I'm an Omnologist!"
Hope this helps.
Robert Cordingley
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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
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