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__When you first begin to think about any subject, take a hard look at how it is defined.__ Study the generally accepted categories, the way people normally divide things up. Is it a logical system? Is it an inclusive system that takes into account all of the players? If the definition other people are using is wrong, if it is not robust enough, discard it and think up a better one. __You cannot afford to build your whole structure of understanding on weak foundations. And you may not be able to afford to see the world in the same light as everyone else.__
The Lifetime Learner's Guide to Reading and Learning
Gary Hoover
A positive view of self-limits and mutual dependence might appear more the domain of religious ethics than of political economy. But shame about dependence has a practical consequence. It erodes mutual trust and commitment, and the lack of these social bonds threatens the workings of any collective enterprise.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
This conversion that Brown describes is a conversion of language; our speech becomes something we think of ourselves as investing in, and as simply and solely instrumental in our economic success; it serves our ambitions for personal gain. And so what we might have thought of as a shared language is a language calculated to make the shared itself a profit-making enterprise (the political being the official shared world). __If language itself is a commodity – something to invest in – what will it then be unable, or unwilling, to do?__
On Wanting to Change
Adam Phillips
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