Tag: kaos pilots
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The active life: Ways of life available to us in modernity
More reflections on my fall course at Kaos Pilots * Given the distinction between the good life and sustaining life and given also that the former furnishes us with a reason for being while the latter, on its own, can only answer the question of how to go on, it follows that someone will be…
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A sketch of a public philosophy for an alternative educational model
Yesterday, I reflected on a sense of bewilderment I felt upon leaving Kaos Pilots in Denmark. I have often wondered what draws young persons to certain versions of relativism, postmodernism, and pragmatism. The answer I gave went like this: There is considerable appeal in this public philosophy: rejection of the old [evident in relativism], relief…
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On the continuing appeal of relativism, postmodernism, and pragmatism
I’m just getting back from a 10-day trip to Scandinavia. The first five I spent in Stockholm and Vaxholm at Future Perfect, a festival focused on the subject of sustainability; the second five in Denmark at Kaos Pilots, a social entrepreneurship school based in Aarhus. At Kaos Pilots, I put on a two-day workshop on…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 