http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/07/07/a-whole-new-mind-by-daniel-h-pink/ Eric Nehrlich, Unrepentant Generalist Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:24:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/07/07/a-whole-new-mind-by-daniel-h-pink/comment-page-1/#comment-163955 peter Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:38:20 +0000 http://www.nehrlich.com/blog/2008/07/07/a-whole-new-mind-by-daniel-h-pink/#comment-163955 The L-directed way of thinking has been dominant in western society for a lot longer than just the last 100 years. Philosopher Stephen Toulmin, in his superb and erudite book, "Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity" (Chicago University Press, 1990) marks the starting point as the work of Rene Descartes, with his desire for abstracted, universalist, de-contextualized and de-temporalized models of reasoning. The L-directed way of thinking has been dominant in western society for a lot longer than just the last 100 years. Philosopher Stephen Toulmin, in his superb and erudite book, “Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity” (Chicago University Press, 1990) marks the starting point as the work of Rene Descartes, with his desire for abstracted, universalist, de-contextualized and de-temporalized models of reasoning.

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