Happy Chrismas and a happy new year to all friends of wisdom!
Our new reader "Is there certain knowledge?" is
still open - if someone wants to contribute, please,
feel free to contact me.
Regards
Michael Rahnfeld
Germany
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ---
> Von: G L Pandit <[log in to unmask]>
> An: [log in to unmask]
> Betreff: Re: Friends of Wisdom Website
> Datum: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:33:07 -0800
>
> Dear Nick, Dear Friends of Wisdom ("From Knowledge to Wisdom"),
> A Conference would be preferable for the purpose, even if it is held in
> 2007 after some preparation, before bringing out a Volume or putting a
> regular magazine in place. Press releases are also very important as part
of
> the programmes and activities to foster the aims of the "Invisible
College".
> Happy Christmas, everyone, and a very happy New Year 2006.
> G. L. Pandit
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>
>
> Nicholas Maxwell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hullo Everybody.
>
> I think Mat Iredale is right (see his email of the 10th Dec.). 'Friends
> of Wisdom' is problematic as the title of our website. I too think
> 'Knowledge to Wisdom' would be better, the URL being
www.knowledgetowisdom.org.
> If there are no objections, I shall go ahead with obtaining that domain
for
> our group and our website in the new year. And I will create our website
> with 1and1.co.uk. I have already been in touch with them about creating a
> website with them. I will let you know what the contents of the various
> pages of our website will be before I create them, and criticisms and
> suggestion would be very helpful. Mat has suggested to me that he could
improve
> on what I have already circulated for approval, taking up suggestions
> already made by others. When the website is up and running we can, of
course,
> always modify it as we see fit.
>
> Once our website is in Google, I think we ought to have a public launch
> of our group and its quixotic effort to transform academia so that it
comes
> to devote itself to wisdom. We should send out press releases in our
> respective countries, and tell the media, scientific and academic
societies,
> other relevant campaigning organizations and other emailing groups about
our
> existence and aspirations. I have already had an inquiry from a British
> newspaper about our group - The Times Higher Education Supplement. Then
we
> must get down to the serious business of working out what needs to change,
> and how we are going to help bring desirable changes about. We should
> consider having a Conference, either in physical space or in virtual
space. We
> should consider getting a collection of essays together, and publishing
it.
> And at some stage we should consider creating a Friends of Wisdom or
> Knowledge to Wisdom magazine.
>
> Writing in the seventeenth century, Robert Boyle, one of the founding
> fathers of modern science, had this to say about what he called the
> 'Invisible College' - a sort of forerunner of the Royal Society, and thus
of
> organized scientific research. 'The 'Invisible College' [consists of]
persons that
> endeavour to put narrow-mindedness out of countenance by the practice of
> so extensive a charity that it reaches unto everything called man, and
> nothing less than an universal good-will can content it. And indeed they
are so
> apprehensive of the want of good employment that they take the whole body
> of mankind for their care.' (Quoted in my From Knowledge to Wisdom, p.
54.)
> Well, perhaps we can't quite measure up to the aspirations of Boyle and
> the Invisible College, but it would be good to have a bit more of that
> spirit infused into academia!
>
> I will be in touch.
>
> Happy Christmas, everyone, and a very good, flourishing new year.
>
> Nick
> www.nick-maxwell.demon.co.uk
>
>
>
>
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