Quote of the Day

[Dave Monroe]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Page <page at quesnelbc.com> wrote:

> 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.

Who?  Which book?