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| : ''A Place to Study'' fosters the autonomous judgment , especially about self-formation and liberal learning, by its contributors and their readers. To do this, contributors need to express their own views in a responsive, cogent manner, which requires, not a stance of authority vis-à-vis readers, but one of equality, two (or more) persons thinking together about a common topic. Speaking in our own voice establishes this equality of autonomous persons interacting together in open discussion. | | <div style="margin: 0 0 5px 0;"><imagemap> |
| ; We should experiment at perfecting productive interaction around matters of common interest.
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| <h1>Participating</h1>
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| <p>On ''A Place to Study'' we participate, not in the website, not in an organization or corporate enterprise. We participate, as in a sport, in a widely shared activity—that of forming human selves, instances of humanity. This is not a zero-sum game. We play, not to win, but to participate, to take part as fully as we can—that is the life each leads. Each does so contingently, for life itself comes to each of us, as a gift. Nevertheless, we participate definitively, for each lives a cumulative set of irrevocable actions for ourselves and for others. We live our lives squeezing inchoate possibility through the constraints of here and now into the receding expanse of lived experience. ''A Place to Study'' exists as possibility, one which we can try to bring to life by striving to actualize what it can and should become—a real resource freely available to all as they pursue self-directed activities in the human commons, the wonderful diversity of human lives.</p>
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| <p>In the shared activity of forming human lives, participating through ''A Place to Study'' is contingent and incidental, one possibility among many others. To call ''A Place to Study'' a possibility recognizes that it is not yet an actuality. As a possibility one participates in it by striving to instantiate the idea. Hence, participating in ''A Place to Study'' at this point involves trying to instantiate it by acting ''in loco parentis'' towards it, concentrating on actions that will actualize the possibility as a reality available to all. We can do that by being careful to create initial content for the site that will effectively illustrate the purposes and spirit of it. That willingness to participate from the beginning in ways consistent with the purposes and spirit of the effort is key to self-directed activities in the human commons.</p>
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| Study, self-formation, liberal learning, work through each person's first-person awareness of life, which responds aspirationally with the ever-diversifying self-awareness of the various seekers, as each steps forth. In this sense, "Who are we?" evokes many responses, among them. . . .
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| * We are those who, through good fortune and hard effort, have benefited highly from formal instruction and enriching experience.
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| * We are those who, through adversity and inadvertence, have not benefited from formal instruction and enriching experience.
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| * We are those, advanced in age, having enjoyed the perks of the system, who worry that it can no longer nurture the values and abilities that drew us to it.
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| * We are those who feel consumed by the stresses of high consumption, and wish to assert, "Enough!"
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| * We are those who prefer the examined life to the packaged life, and those who want to start examining packaged lives that are failing to deliver on their promise.
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| * We are those who are young in years or spirit and who want to sustain consistent, meaningful purpose through the complexity of circumstance.
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| * We are those who see the admission of ignorance as the threshold of wisdom.
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| * We are those who recognize ourselves as spanning both advantages and adversities and work to realize our possibilities without taking pride in the advantages or feeling resentment at the adversities.
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| * We are those who see ourselves as unique variations on a common theme and wish to realize that uniqueness for the benefit of all.
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| <p>When ''A Place to Study'' get fully up and running, participation will be open to any and all who want to participate in its work. During the period of initial development, we will limit participation significantly to set a pace which allows kinks to be corrected as they arise.</p> | |
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| <p>Currently, we are inviting a few (circa 25-50) to slowly seed ''A Place to Study'' with initial content and to experiment with some form of organized activities on the site. These activities will primarily be on the components of '''The place''' and in participants user areas. We would like these initial participants to be diverse in age, backgrounds, and interests, several to have sophistication with MediaWiki, and all to be ready and able to push the project forward in ways consonant with its purpose and spirit.</p>
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