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Tag Archives: Education
EDUCATION, A JOB THAT NEVER ENDS, OR GROW OLD.
Plato treats the subject of education in The Republic as an integral and vital part of a wider subject of the well-being of human society. The ultimate aim of education is to help people know the Idea of the Good, … Continue reading
IGNORANCE, THE HUMAN CONDITION.
“It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.” Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human. When in my late teens, the books of Friedriech … Continue reading
Posted in Arete, Consciousness, Criticism, Cultural Attitudes, Human Nature, Ignorance, Inspiration, Knowledge, True Teaching, Uncategorized, Wisdom
Tagged Arete, Education, Ignorance, Knowledge, Nietzsche, Occam's razor, Wisdom
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EDUCATION, A CRISIS OF VALUES, VIRTUE A RETURN TO ARCADIA, OR HOW TO GET OUT OF THE QUAGMIRE OF MATERIALISM
And if I say that the greatest good of a man is daily to converse about virtue, and all that concerning which you hear me examining myself and others, and that the life which is unexamined is not worth … Continue reading
Posted in Bankruptcy, Capitalism, Crisis of Values, Critical Thinking, Democracy, Economy, Education, End of materialism, Future, Greed, Justice, Politics, Progress, Student debt, Uncategorized, Virtue, Western Ideals, Wisdom
Tagged A new direction, Capitalism, Critical Thinking, Education, Idealism, Justice, Materialism, Real Education, The failure of society, The future of education, The quagmire of education
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CRITICAL THINKING, AND FREEDOM
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? William … Continue reading
Posted in Critical Thinking, Freedom, Philosophy, Spirituality
Tagged Baqa, Bliss, Critical Thinking, E.F. Schumacher, Education, Epictetus, Fana, Freedom, Heysychasm, Jean Grenier, Knowledge, Moral Compass, Mushin No kokoro, Post-Apocalyptic, Sanata Dharma, Sat-Chit-Ananda, Sun Wu Kung, System, to think outside the box, Truth
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MYTH AND REALITY
MYTH, REALITY AND THE QUEST FOR TRUTH This is two little essays I wrote at different times, but here I bring together, they deal with Reality and Myth, two big words that are little understood, here I deconstruct. The truth … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmogony, Cosmology, Critical Thinking, Myth, Philosophy, Spirituality
Tagged Carl Jung, Cosmology, Dostoevsky, Education, Emotions, Enantiodromia, Facts, Holbein, Impartiality, Life Meaning, Methaphysical dimensions, Myth, Psyche, Reality, Truth, Values
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Kone, Krusos, Kronos 