Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.970106143911.17600A@fox.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 14:42:48 -0600 From: kerry miller <mailto:astingsh@KSU.EDU> Subject: Re: pushing development--or pushing the status quo? To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
An excellent overview and analysis of various interpretations of
'sustainable development is
Sustainable Development And Philosophies Of Technology
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/SPT/v1_n1n2/nieto.html
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On reading Steve's concern for 'common ground' (and the use of epithets such
as 'true believer' and 'all-out critics') I am compelled to add
another bit of WWW booty:
University of Chicago Magazine, Dec. 1994, Richard McKeon
http://www2.uchicago.edu/alumni/alumni.mag/9412/Feat4.html
"I think it can be shown that ideological agreement on one philosophy
by all mankind is neither possible nor, if it were possible,
desirable," McKeon told his students in the first lecture of Ideas and
Methods 211. "It would probably put us into a kind of intellectual
sleep in which we need do no further thinking....
"The progress of knowledge is, rather, that with the solution to any
problem, a large number of unsuspected problems arise; and therefore,
the more problems you answer, the more problems you have. This, I
suggest, is not discouraging; rather, it would indicate that as
thinkers, you have a future."
The transcript notes that, at this point, McKeon and his students
shared a good laugh.
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IOW, maybe the important thing to communicate in both
development work and meta-development discussion is the
value of difference and diversity - which is not, to some people's
undoubted surprise, the same as disagreement.
kerry