Quote of the Day
Page
page at quesnelbc.com
Tue Nov 3 16:46:05 CST 2009
Dan Lyons is the author. The book is Democracy, Rights and Freedoms. The
entire book can
be found at http://lamar.colostate.edu/~dlyons.
There is no charge.
Page
----- 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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