Symposium introduction: Minding the modern: Human agency, intellectual traditions, and responsible knowledge by Thomas Pfau
Pfau opens with the point that the concepts in the book aren’t tools to be used. For Pfau, a concept is like a person. You can’t use concepts; you have to engage them. You have to know their histories, the way they passed on their traditions and their stories, because concepts are a remembrance of t...
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Main Author: | TSE, Justin Kh |
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Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
2015
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Online Access: | https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3381 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4638/viewcontent/Minding_the_Modern_2015_av.pdf |
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