Yesterday I listened to a very interesting lecture by a philosopher that had opened her own business where she did, well, practical philosophy. The book "Plato - not Prozac" was referred to, and some of you here on the forum might know of it. Anyway, in short she offered to help people, with philosophy, not therapy or psychology, but with classic philosophy - to structure and evaluate their life. This woman was really quite remarkable, because she was perhaps the greatest Champion of rationality that I have ever met, honest to the bone about it all. I just flat out loved it. Her and what she represented. Because even though I had to bite my tongue every time that she with a look of disgust waved away "feeling arguments" and vague impressions, I could so very clearly see the Value in what she was doing and what she represented. She is in a very real way a soldier of rationality, talking about, and promoting philosophy's part in society, as well as being a part of that herself. She quite probably wouldn't call is such, but as I see it, she is promoting that specific way of thinking that will provide a base for the MOQ to stand on. And this, people, is Quality Teaching if ever I saw it!
Now, perhaps I have painted myself as a heretic.. But I know you are all wiser then that, and this has of course been debated before, but I feel that it is imperative that we don't let the MOQ become anti-rational and/or anti-intellectual, because this is what is NEEDED for the MOQ to come forth. We all could take the ideas of mr Pirsig to heart BECAUSE we were living in a s/o rational world. Perhaps we all felt that there were something missing, perhaps not, - perhaps we hated it, perhaps we didn't - but rationality we knew of, no doubt. So. My long overdue point: See the value in the advancement of rationality, because only on that base can the MOQ be built. Regards Chris 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/
