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To: Elizabeth Andrews who wrote (995)	8/26/1998 10:16:00 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 1092

They had a bad share structure from the start. There is something funny going on in the universities. They only people they like to graduate do not seem to have much fundamental empathy with the people that would advance their careers. Is selfishness and blindness being advanced and rewarded? What is the moral base that is the touchstone for the our institutions? Is it fatally flawed? Socrates said that to be perfectly good one had to be first perfectly wise. A cant of pseudo morality being first, the easy password to high reward without any attendant wisdom to know the difference or conscience to seek the path of enlightenment, is it not dangerous to trust the recipients of today's laureates? The first morality is knowledge and wisdom. The second is to question all that is granted as a path to wisdom. From that the error of all but the highest path can be eschewed and the economy of good will reveal itself. The final morality is to always question yourself first. EC<:-}

To: Elizabeth Andrews who wrote (995)	8/27/1998 1:04:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1092

That is the difference between small c cynicism that degrades to meaningless selfishness, and large C cynicism that believes in practical means of achieving virtue or good. Virtue, meaning that which is good. So its synonymousness becomes a tautology. Its practical means of gaining end, not in itself exclusive of the means but somewhat manipulative, rescues it from mawkish idealism which may never have the end of good while seeming to be a virtue by entertaining the wish of it above all else.