Quote of the Day

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Just finished reading a book by one of my ethics professors. He 
distinguishes know how from know whether. Know how is our ability to act. 
Know whether is the wisdom that tells us whether we ought to act. As Plato 
pointed out a few weeks ago, there are many more ways to go wrong than there 
are ways to go right.

This leads the ethics professor to give the following advice, "Don't do 
something!" "Stand there!" Dovetails nicely with Dave's quote below.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:44 AM
Subject: Quote of the Day


> "The old saying 'Don't just talk, do something!' is one of the most
> stupid things one can say, even measured by the low standards of
> common sense." --Slavoj Zizek, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce (2009)
>
> http://www.versobooks.com/books/tuvwxyz/xyz-titles/zizek_s_first_as_tragedy.shtml
>


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