Tag: Commitment

• August 16, 2012

  The Art of Inquiry, Chapter 2: Confusion

  Excerpt from The Art of Inquiry, Chapter 2. Please enjoy. * 2. Confusion 2.1. Preliminary Definition Rather than respond to Meno’s challenge head-on, Socrates shows him that and how a slave-boy can inquire. Afterward, Meno and Socrates put aside the search for a definition of virtue and resume their inquiry into the question of whether virtue…
• August 2, 2012

  Commitment as a precondition to inquiry

  Earlier today I was speaking with Pete Sims at Kaos Pilots about the art of inquiry. Based in Denmark, Kaos Pilots is a three-year program of study in social entrepreneurship. During the third year, students are invited to create a social business project that will take them, quite possibly, to faraway places and put them…