Month: October 2014

• October 18, 2014

  Choosing the Right Spiritual Path

  The Scene of Bewilderment One is soon bewildered after one awakens to the realization that there must be more than this. The realization comes, comes surely and painfully, and cannot be taken back. Despite the realization striking home with the force of conviction, one does not know what one means when one says and believes, ‘There…
• October 16, 2014

  Kaos Pilots: A Comprehensive View (Part 2)

  I mentioned a second method that, if applied, could help Kaos Pilots or a school like it to make sense of a wide array of phenomena by bringing that wide array into a single, comprehensive view of things. In Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, the Catholic philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre observes that there come times when competing traditions confront each…
• October 14, 2014

  Kaos Pilots: A Comprehensive View (Part 1)

  Kaos Pilots is a fairly unique school in that its students are taught by a wide array of guest lecturers who discuss a vast array of subjects. The latter include courses in business strategy, process consulting, and appreciative inquiry as well as workshops on personal development and theories of narrative–just to name a few. Over its…
• October 10, 2014

  Kaos Pilots: The Cultivation of Character

  What would unify the curriculum at Kaos Pilots? One way, which I explored in yesterday’s post, would be to treat the education as articulating and specifying what, concretely, making a difference means for me. A second way would be to explicitly teach the cultivation of character. This is called character education. As far back as antiquity,…
• October 9, 2014

  Kaos Pilots: Making a Difference

  Yesterday, I began to discuss what Kaos Pilots is; today I will discuss what it could become. I suggested that what could unify the school would be (i) the cultivation of character, (ii) the articulation of a finite set of final aims, and (iii) the attempt to draw a comprehensive picture of a set of prima facie competing…