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Category Archives: Virtues
Getting Politics (and Life!) off the Titanic
William Ophuls has written some very thoughtful books about our political age. Plato’s Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology is one of them. He challenges our world, not just at the level of tinkering with deck chairs (e.g. biofuels … Continue reading
Posted in Reimagining, Thought Pieces, Virtues, Ways of Seeing
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Teaching Wisdom – To Know the World, you Have to Live in the World
“To know the world, you have to live in the world.” Carol Black has written a beautiful and insightful essay on connection between children and the outdoors, knowing, and what education ought to be. It resonates with me. I think … Continue reading
Posted in Land Use, Thought Pieces, Virtues, Ways of Seeing
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Does Ozymandias Live in the Bay?
A democratic society is based on the values of an open society, those nebulous things that don’t fit into a financier’s or an economist’s spreadsheet. These values provide for the trust, participation, creativity, freedom and imagination that makes the good … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Vision, Community resilience, Democracy, Knowledge Systems, Local governance, Management Style, Social Capital, Virtues
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Arrogance, Command & control, Democracy, George Orwell, Governance, Hubris, Lessons of history, Phronesis, Power, Practical Wisdom, Privacy, Propaganda, Resilience theory, Robert Putnam, Social Capital, Social institutions, Social Resilience, Social values, Surveillance society, Transactional vs. Transformational management
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