seems to me that this web-site IS a publisher; if that's the case, all
that's needed is someone to perform the editorial function. Use the site to
construct a coherent framework. as with any subject, the trick is to
understand the subject well enough to be able to explain it to a novice. As
Einstein said, things should be explained a simply a possible, but no more.
Spin off a subsidiary site for teaching material resources, and various
people specialise in making relevant conceptual links beteen this and
various recognised subjects. As long as everybody does this in a "quality
way" (rather than merely empire building, which is what seems to happen to
most 'new' disciplines), the undertaking seems worthwhile. Looking around,
it's glaringly obvious that many areas of human endeavour have become
somewhat divorced from any notion of an abiding 'good' or 'quality' which is
independant of peoples' opinions, relying instead on a sort of 'general
relativism'. I blame democracy...so it's all back to the Greeks, then?
cheers
ppl
----- Original Message -----
From: "elephant" <moqelephant@lineone.net>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: 15 May 2001 22:11
Subject: Re: MD An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Quality
Smart Idea.
Any publishers tuned in?
> From: "Daniel Colonnese" <dcolonnese@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 16:17:51 -0000
> To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Subject: MD An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Quality
>
>
>
> I think that there ought to be a Routledge paperback titled, An
> Introduction to the Metaphysics of Quality, And it should be used in a
> course for college freshman. They could write essays and stuff. Then it
> would be a "Real" discipline, and not just some fringe list on the
Internet.
> Think of how much time and energy has been wasted studying outdated and
> useless things like Religion or Art History when the kids should have been
> learning something Good. Maybe some of us could get jobs teaching
Quality,
> then people would have a reason to study it. But the first step is to
> publish a textbook. The kind with big unchanging chapter headings and
> review questions in the back. And we'll need a glossary, so that
everybody
> will be speaking the same jargon, a sort of glue to hold the book
together.
>
> Well let me know what you think,
>
> Dan Colonnese
>
>
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