If your read Aristotle's Ethics you will find the words in the article are slightly different but the ideas are essentially the same, I think many know this, so that's not what I want to share. I recently met a humanities professor and his colleague the head of Engineering. The humanities professor was denigrating his faculty in the face of technology, he felt at least applied humanities to the world of business was of some value. I pointed out to him that he should find common ground with his Engineering colleague as Plato's theory of forms was a method of classifying "things" and as such the basis of object modelling used in computer science and database UML design. Having made the connection for both of them they were amazed at the overlap of their respective intellectual silos. So what's the point? One generation to the next inherits "technology" without any problem, but inheriting the wisdom that made the technology is something every generation must relearn, as Merlin says in Excalibur "For it is the doom of men that they forget". We are on a path where each generation will inherit bigger, better and "badder" tools and toys. Finding a way for society to inherit the wisdom and knowledge as easily is a much bigger challenge. BTW article was great, not sure I would like to live a life in pursuit of a subjective brain state called happiness.
On Mar 28, 2014 William wrote:
If your read Aristotle's Ethics you will find the words in the article are slightly different but the ideas are essentially the same, I think many know this, so that's not what I want to share. I recently met a humanities professor and his colleague the head of Engineering. The humanities professor was denigrating his faculty in the face of technology, he felt at least applied humanities to the world of business was of some value. I pointed out to him that he should find common ground with his Engineering colleague as Plato's theory of forms was a method of classifying "things" and as such the basis of object modelling used in computer science and database UML design. Having made the connection for both of them they were amazed at the overlap of their respective intellectual silos. So what's the point? One generation to the next inherits "technology" without any problem, but inheriting the wisdom that made the technology is something every generation must relearn, as Merlin says in Excalibur "For it is the doom of men that they forget". We are on a path where each generation will inherit bigger, better and "badder" tools and toys. Finding a way for society to inherit the wisdom and knowledge as easily is a much bigger challenge. BTW article was great, not sure I would like to live a life in pursuit of a subjective brain state called happiness.