Category: ethics

• 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…
• October 8, 2014

  The nature of Kaos Pilots and the question of pragmatism

  Kaos Pilots is described on Wikipedia as a ‘School of New Business Design and Social Innovation.’ On its own website, Kaos Pilots describes itself as ‘a hybrid business and design school, a multi-sided education in leadership and entrepreneurship.’ But I’m not sure that it is a business school or a design school or a social innovation…
• October 7, 2014

  In Stillness: A 10 minute chant and meditation

  Before leaving for Denmark where I taught a course at Kaos Pilots, Aleksandra and I recorded a 10 minute chant and meditation, which I have included below. One morning before dawn we sat as usual on meditation cushions. Aleksandra held an iPhone up to her mouth and chanted this two stanza poem. An earlier version of the…
• September 14, 2014

  Making perspicuous the connections: Cheerfulness, surprise, and marvel

  1. It dawns on me that there is a particular kind of person that I have been trying to describe over the past couple of years. There are three sets of terms that bring this kind of character more sharply into focus: dispositional terms, aesthetic terms, and an occurrence term. 2. The dispositional terms are…
• September 11, 2014

  Against embodied practice

  Everyone from designers to educators to New Agey types seems to be talking these days about ’embodied practice.’ I believe there is a more literal meaning as well as a more figurative one. According to the literal meaning, one is actually to be involved in some activity where one is conscious of being an embodied human…