Quoting Heather Perella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "But in sharp contrast to all this, the traditional > Enlightenment has sought to apply generalized > scientific method, not to social life, but merely to > social science! Instead of helping humanity learn how > to become more civilized by rational means, the > traditional Enlightenment has sought merely to help > social scientists improve knowledge of social > phenomena. The outcome is that today academic inquiry > devotes itself to acquiring knowledge of natural and > social phenomena, but does not attempt to help > humanity learn how to become more civilized. This is > the blunder that is at the root of our current failure > to have solved the second great problem of learning > [19]." > > - Can Humanity Learn to become Civilized? > The Crisis of Science without Civilization > (Published in Journal of Applied Philosophy 17, > 2000, 29-44.) > Nicholas Maxwell > Emeritus Reader in Philosophy of Science at > University College > London > > So, are people to learn what is and do nothing > about it? To observe, but think they do not > participate with what they observe. It seems to be a > question of when do we step in and when do we let go. > I find practicing balance to be helpful in making > balanced decisions, but when dealing with decisions > that are intellectually challenging, in other words, > involve more complex senarios to weigh against each > other, the decision making task may not always come to > the ideal conclusion. Sometimes the answer is, this > is the best we can do with what tools we have.
Both the quote above and your comment are excellent. There's a wide gap between theory and practice. Platt ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
