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A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age.
Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.
In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.
Tools for Conviviality (1973)
Churches also have their problems with a Jesus whose only economics are jokes.
Universal education through schooling is not feasible. It would be no more feasible if it were attempted by means of alternative institutions built on the style of present schools.
Deschooling Society (1971)
A transformation of the environment from a commons to a productive resource constitutes the most fundamental form of environmental degradation.
Silence is a Commons (1982)
The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed into the search for their institutional inverse: educational webs which heighten the opportunity for each one to transform each moment of his living into one of learning, sharing, and caring.
Deschooling Society (1971)
People need new tools to work with rather than new tools that work for them.
Tools for Conviviality (1973)
I will clarify a distinction that I consider fundamental to political ecology. I shall distinguish the environment as commons from the environment as resource.
Silence is a Commons (1982)
Learned and leisured hospitality is the only antidote to the stance of deadly cleverness that is acquired in the professional pursuit of objectively secured knowledge.
His response is clear: abandon all that which has been branded by Caesar; but then, enjoy the knowledge that everything, everything else is God's, and therefore is to be used by you.
The message is so simple: Jesus jokes about Caesar. He shrugs off his control.
I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality.
We the People interview (1996)
The Latin osculum is neither very old nor frequent. It is one of three words that can be translated by the English, "kiss."
The Cultivation of Conspiracy (1998)
People called commons those parts of the environment for which customary law exacted specific forms of community respect.
Silence is a Commons (1982)
A polymath and polemicist, his greatest contribution was as an archaeologist of ideas, rather than an ideologue.
The shared breath, the con-spiratio are the "peace" understood as the community that arises from it.
The Cultivation of Conspiracy (1998)
Friendship in the Greek tradition, in the Roman tradition, in the old tradition, was always viewed as the highest point which virtue can reach.
We the People interview (1996)
Sin is an evil of a kind that could not exist except through the denial of grace. It is not in any sense a violation of a law: it is always a personal offense against a person. It is unfaithfulness.
Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
Deschooling Society (1971)