I watched Don Levine's interview. It was excellent. Among other things, it shifts attention to our own behaviors and attitudes that must change in fundamental ways before we can help to change Ethiopia.
—Dr. Aklog Birru
—Dr. Aklog Birru
What is needed for free minds is discipline, discipline which forms the habits which enable the mind to operate well. Nothing better can be said on this subject than the concise statement of John Dewey. "The discipline," he said, "that is identical with trained power is also identical with freedom."
—Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1943 Simmel's approach to the study of society is vulnerable in three respects that a Parsonian critique readily reveals. . . . On the other hand, Parson's approach to the study of society is vulnerable in certain respects that a Simmelian critique readily reveals. . . . Even when it may prove impossible to combine the divergent approaches of the two authors in a single interpretive framework where one is dominant and the other subordinate, the social analyst may benefit from alternating the two perspectives when considering some particular set of phenomena.
—Donald N Levine (1991) 2011 | The Dialog BlogWelcome to Dialog Blog, where we shall pursue inquiry through the practice of creating and resolving problems. CategoriesAll ArchivesNovember 2014 Dialogue Quotables:Violence is the shadow energy of impotence.
— Deepak Chopra Do I not destroy my enemy when I make him my friend?
— Abraham Lincoln (also dialogue) noun - a discussion between two or more people or groups, esp. one directed toward exploration of a particular subject or resolution of a problem.
The primary word I-Thou can be spoken only with the whole being. Concentration and fusion into the whole being can never take place through my agency, not can it ever take place without me. I become through my relation to the Thou; and as I become the I, I say Thou. All real living is meeting.
—Buber, I and Thou |
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