Category Archives: Virtues

Getting Politics (and Life!) off the Titanic

Posted on September 18, 2018 by cjkperley

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 →

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Teaching Wisdom – To Know the World, you Have to Live in the World

Posted on October 4, 2016 by cjkperley

“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 →

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Does Ozymandias Live in the Bay?

Posted on September 14, 2013 by cjkperley

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 →

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