"... having silicon enforce rules means that we lose the fuzziness that enables the exceptions that are at the heart of fairness. . ."
- David Weinberger, "Why Creators Shouldn't Own What they Create" in The Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization, Oct. 15, 2003. more »
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Thursday, October 16
David Weinberger
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DavidAkin
on Thu 16 Oct 2003 03:19 PM EDT
Northrop Frye
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DavidAkin
on Thu 16 Oct 2003 05:34 AM EDT
The ethical purpose of a liberal education is to liberate, which can only mean to make one capable of conceiving society as free, classless, and urbane. No such society exists, which is one reason why a liberal education must be deeply concerned with works of the imagination.
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