Thanks for the kind words! I do want to clarify my objection a little.
When I said you would succeed at teaching philosophy too well, I didn’t mean people would become Caricature Philosophers, who sit in armchairs and think all the time.
I meant they might be philosophers, consider how to live well, and come up with a very different answer their parents support or they meant school to teach (eg stepping off the prestigious career track to have children “too soon”, leaving their community to live among and serve the poor, etc).
The touchpoint is the Integrated Humanities Program at Kansas (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Humanities_Program), which was run by passionate Catholics but had a secular curriculum. The combination of interlinked humanities classes, stargazing and dancing, and the joy of their professors led to A LOT of conversations (and a lot of religious vocations).
The university investigated, didn’t find any evidence of proselytizing, but shut down the program because studying how to live wasn’t supposed to lead to so many people converging on an *answer*!
Welp, right now I'm in the middle of transitioning my career, this will take about a year and a half, maybe two years. However, the perk I am interested in is better understanding all the tools you've been thinking of and manifesting, such as Science is WEIRD, the Deep Practice Book, and everything else. I want to study these tools and translate them (not literally, though maybe literally) to Brazil's reality and see what holds and what doesn't; learning is amazing and I don't know if this is a general human feeling or one that some of us have and others, don't.
Have you ever read that story where people come into contact with a society deeply affected by aesthetics, aesthetical perfection? It's an online short story, great one, very thought-provoking. I think that getting schools closer and closer to Egan (and Montessori, yes, I'm a huge fan, though I know it's imperfect) would unlock a new existence for humankind. To change schools is to change the whole expectations not only about childhood and education, but society itself, our purposes, our priorities! I don't know if it's possible, I know it's worth trying.
I honestly think my ideas for the pre-morten were not that insightful, but perhaps my comments showed that spark of love for this subject.
PS: As for Brazilian Freemasonry, heh, what can I say? I never sought to identify as a full-fledged Rationalist because I knew I am heretic from the start. But there is something to be discussed about a group of "free thinkers", that spawned the actual Illuminati, that may or may not have been transformed by the Rosicrucians, that proposed that growth is both personal and communitary, that has as one of its core tenets Truth.
PPS: Maria Montesori lived WWII in India, in the Theosophical Society ashram. Is that a tragic flaw of some unconventional thinkers, to be attracted to weird/false/questionable ideas? Is it essential? Is it accidental? I bet Egan had some pretty weird personal traits, too. Then again, Plato was a Pythagorean, Kepler and Brahe really liked their Astrology, and so on and so forth. What is UNSONG, if not Scott's drawing a circle around his Kabbalistic tendencies and saying, "stay there!"?
Thanks for the kind words! I do want to clarify my objection a little.
When I said you would succeed at teaching philosophy too well, I didn’t mean people would become Caricature Philosophers, who sit in armchairs and think all the time.
I meant they might be philosophers, consider how to live well, and come up with a very different answer their parents support or they meant school to teach (eg stepping off the prestigious career track to have children “too soon”, leaving their community to live among and serve the poor, etc).
The touchpoint is the Integrated Humanities Program at Kansas (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Humanities_Program), which was run by passionate Catholics but had a secular curriculum. The combination of interlinked humanities classes, stargazing and dancing, and the joy of their professors led to A LOT of conversations (and a lot of religious vocations).
The university investigated, didn’t find any evidence of proselytizing, but shut down the program because studying how to live wasn’t supposed to lead to so many people converging on an *answer*!
"I... I AM the banana king!"
Welp, right now I'm in the middle of transitioning my career, this will take about a year and a half, maybe two years. However, the perk I am interested in is better understanding all the tools you've been thinking of and manifesting, such as Science is WEIRD, the Deep Practice Book, and everything else. I want to study these tools and translate them (not literally, though maybe literally) to Brazil's reality and see what holds and what doesn't; learning is amazing and I don't know if this is a general human feeling or one that some of us have and others, don't.
Have you ever read that story where people come into contact with a society deeply affected by aesthetics, aesthetical perfection? It's an online short story, great one, very thought-provoking. I think that getting schools closer and closer to Egan (and Montessori, yes, I'm a huge fan, though I know it's imperfect) would unlock a new existence for humankind. To change schools is to change the whole expectations not only about childhood and education, but society itself, our purposes, our priorities! I don't know if it's possible, I know it's worth trying.
I honestly think my ideas for the pre-morten were not that insightful, but perhaps my comments showed that spark of love for this subject.
PS: As for Brazilian Freemasonry, heh, what can I say? I never sought to identify as a full-fledged Rationalist because I knew I am heretic from the start. But there is something to be discussed about a group of "free thinkers", that spawned the actual Illuminati, that may or may not have been transformed by the Rosicrucians, that proposed that growth is both personal and communitary, that has as one of its core tenets Truth.
PPS: Maria Montesori lived WWII in India, in the Theosophical Society ashram. Is that a tragic flaw of some unconventional thinkers, to be attracted to weird/false/questionable ideas? Is it essential? Is it accidental? I bet Egan had some pretty weird personal traits, too. Then again, Plato was a Pythagorean, Kepler and Brahe really liked their Astrology, and so on and so forth. What is UNSONG, if not Scott's drawing a circle around his Kabbalistic tendencies and saying, "stay there!"?