Messenger Taking a Break
We were a little overoptimistic about finishing off the essays on our multispecies work by this week - it’s going to take a little longer than expected. We are taking a break for a couple of weeks and will be back mid-July with the promised updates. In the meantime, here are some of the key Messengers from weeks and months past:
The Messenger: What is Ecological Thought?
Midwifing Ecological Thought In last week’s newsletter 👇🏾 we started talking about midwifing ecosystems. When Socrates (the Greek philosopher, not Socratus, who are writing this newsletter) said he was the midwife of wisdom, he meant that conversations with him would produce a certain kind of thought in others.
Citizenship by Design
Politics by Design We are political animals, though not the only ones who are so. We are also philosophical animals. Aristotle starts his Metaphysics with the claim "All humans by nature desire to know." The challenges of collective living has been a concern of philosophy from the very beginning.
Wystem: A System for Wicked Problems, Part 1
Socrates used to say he was the midwife of wisdom. Talking to him made you wise(r). No wonder he was executed for corrupting the minds of the youth. How exactly did he evoke that latent wisdom? What was so enlightening about the Socratic method? There are many answers, of which one is the skill with which he used reason and argument. Remember that syste…
