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Taking notes 58: For the love of thinking: eleven theses

April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 sanjay perera

by Jeff Noonan
The person who loves to think is critically minded. That person is not an undisciplined skeptic, but one who can detect contradictions between principle and practice, and between principles and the values to which they purportedly lead as means. Continue reading Taking notes 58: For the love of thinking: eleven theses

“The Governing boards”: a memorandum on the conduct of universities by business men

June 16, 2015June 16, 2015 sanjay perera

by Thorstein Veblen In the working theory of the modern civilized community, — that is to say in the current common-sense apprehension of what is right and good, as it works out in the long run, — the university is … Continue reading “The Governing boards”: a memorandum on the conduct of universities by business men

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