{"id":46110,"date":"2015-08-16T03:45:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T03:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46110"},"modified":"2015-08-16T03:47:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-16T03:47:06","slug":"regarding-the-proper-study-of-mankind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=46110","title":{"rendered":"Considering &#8220;the proper study of mankind&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; I am reminded also of Abraham Joshua Heschel&#8217;s great and simple book, The Sabbath ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Two very different styles of thinking came to my attention today. The first style (upper panel, below) is that now commonly found within the <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45608\">effective altruism<\/a> movement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SPEC-two-ways-of-thinking.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SPEC-two-ways-of-thinking.png\" alt=\"SPEC two ways of thinking\" width=\"592\" height=\"621\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SPEC-two-ways-of-thinking.png 592w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/SPEC-two-ways-of-thinking-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The second (lower panel, above) comes from <strong>Oliver Sacks<\/strong>, physician. <\/p>\n<p>Between them lies the difference between quantitative and qualitative modes of thinking &#8212; which is to say between quantity and quality as the two great vectors aloing which we align our lives and futures.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>Dylan Matthews<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2015\/8\/10\/9124145\/effective-altruism-global-ai\">I spent a weekend at Google talking with nerds about charity..<\/a>\n<li><strong>Oliver Sacks<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/16\/opinion\/sunday\/oliver-sacks-sabbath.html\">Sabbath<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi <strong>Heschel<\/strong>&#8216;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sabbath-Classics-Abraham-Joshua-Heschel\/dp\/0374529752\">The Sabbath<\/a>, opens with the words:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of clattering commerce, of being yoked to toil. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; I am reminded also of Abraham Joshua Heschel&#8217;s great and simple book, The Sabbath ] . Two very different styles of thinking came to my attention today. The first style (upper panel, below) is that now commonly found within the effective altruism movement: The second (lower panel, above) comes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1209,526,627,717,758,868],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-altruism","category-charles-cameron","category-doublequotes","category-judaism","category-quant-qualit","category-sacred"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46110"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46118,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46110\/revisions\/46118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}