I especially want to attract people in academia and positions of intellectual leadership to being actively and morally rational, since their attitudes spread to their students and apprentices. When you have an intelligent mentor who isn’t using her intelligence to directly analyze and improve her own life, you’re unconsciously less convinced it’s a fruitful pursuit. When the opposite happens, it can really start a cascade.
Provided such a cascade preserves peoples’ sense of morality, which requires some serious care to ensure, it can be a great thing for them and the people around them.
sqrt(-1) and Nancy got my intentions :)
I especially want to attract people in academia and positions of intellectual leadership to being actively and morally rational, since their attitudes spread to their students and apprentices. When you have an intelligent mentor who isn’t using her intelligence to directly analyze and improve her own life, you’re unconsciously less convinced it’s a fruitful pursuit. When the opposite happens, it can really start a cascade.
Provided such a cascade preserves peoples’ sense of morality, which requires some serious care to ensure, it can be a great thing for them and the people around them.