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I can summarize a thousand years of moral philosophy in a few sentences: pre–Hobbes and Bentham, human nature was viewed as a battle between our desire to be good and our temptations to behave badly, and the gist of moral philosophy and religious faith was that we should treat each other as we want to be treated ourselves—the golden rule—and we sho
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
he contends that philosophy has been overly concerned with knowledge (epistemology). This, he believes, turns all our relationships into instruments, alienating us from the world (to give him a little of Rosa’s language).
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Il s’appuie sur les trois critères essentiels que tout chef d’établissement se doit de prendre en compte : • Leadership collaboratif : Créer une vision commune, établir un plan d’amélioration précis et durable, répartir les rôles au sein de l’équipe pédagogique. • Personnalisation de l’environnement : Bannir la culture de l’anonymat qui permet à ta
... See moreKen Robinson • Changez l'école ! : La révolution qui va transformer l'éducation (French Edition)
Earlier we heard Sherlock Holmes present the axiom of emergence: while individuals remain puzzles, man in the aggregate “becomes a mathematical certainty.”
Safi Bahcall • Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
‘intergenerational learning spaces’. ‘I believe’, he told me, ‘that you need at least three generations exploring things together to generate the conditions for real wisdom and imagination to emerge.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Bacon was the first of the long line of scientifically minded philosophers who have emphasized the importance of induction as opposed to deduction. Like most of his successors, he tried to find some better kind of induction than what is called “induction by simple enumeration.” Induction by simple enumeration may be illustrated by a parable. There
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
new definition of a great leader—not just one who is inspirational in speech or grand actions, but one who is inspirational in collaborative action, accountability, and vulnerability.