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I wanted to draft something grand as an introduction to this POD, but upon reflection cannot improve on Janos’ original post on GW’s blog …

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  janos : Practical philosopher

For reference

janos said Sep 3, 2007, 1:40 AM:

 

This is a collection of thoughts to do with the hunch that a new civilisation needs a new philosophy; a new theory of knowledge; a new integrative learning institution; and a new concept of public thinking: not simply non-linear or lateral, but vertical thinking.

“Vertical thought” is concerned with identifying chains of causality linking a “base cause” to sets of symptoms or visible “problems” on the surface of human social experience.

Ask the question “why?” a few times in response to a sequence of “answers” and something important or interesting is brought into consciousness.