Quote of the Day

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Dan Lyons is the author. The book is Democracy, Rights and Freedoms. The 
entire book can

be found at http://lamar.colostate.edu/~dlyons.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Monroe" <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: "Page" <page at quesnelbc.com>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:30 PM
Subject: Re: Quote of the Day


> 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?
>


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