I would certainly agree that a saleable book (or even a series of them)
could be made of existing contributions over the years, arranged by thread.
The trick would be the diplomatic one of obtaining each and everyone's
consent to the project in general and the upshot of the editing in
particular, and that editing might have to be be a full time job (editing
email discussions so that they come out like Socratic dialogues and are
proper representations of everybody's contribution is an interesting and
hard job). It's a definite possibility though, and the prime mover would
have to be someone at moq.org or singled out by them for the task. Possible
canidates? Nominations?
p.e.
> From: "Peter Lennox" <peter@lennox01.freeserve.co.uk>
> Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 22:48:35 +0100
> To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
> Subject: Re: MD An Introduction to the Metaphysics of Quality
>
> 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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