Tag: Definition

• August 18, 2012

  The Art of Inquiry: Bewilderment and the virtues

  Excerpt from the end of Chapter 2 and the beginning of Chapter 3 of The Art of Inquiry. Enjoy. * 2.6. Bewilderment, Redux So far, our itinerary has taken us a good ways: from our basic commitments (alive to X, fraught about Y) to a confrontation with our thinking in general to a space of possibilities.…
• 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 13, 2012

  Inquiry illuminated

  Excerpt from The Art of Inquiry, Chapter 1. * 1. Inquiry Illuminated What is it — Distinguishing Inquiry from Other ‘Genres’ (Methods, Theories) — Why it matters 1.1. Preliminary Definition An inquiry is an unrehearsed genre whose principal aims are, first, to reveal to us what we don’t know but thought we did and, second,…
• October 4, 2011

  Hustle hustle hustle (Part 2): 2 chefs and a definition

  2 Chefs I’m sitting in a coffee shop in Soho. It’s dark, abnormally dark for a coffee shop, and I’m re-reading my copy of Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue. On my right, two men, dressed in suits, are talking hurriedly. I take them to be investment bankers working on Wall Street, but I come to find,…