On 26/06/2013 9:19 AM, Mark Janssen wrote:
Did you ever hear of the Glass Bead Game?
Which was Hesse's condemnation of the pure-academic-understanding-unbound-by-pragmatic-use approach as mental masturbation, _not_ a recommendation for how human knowledge should work. If you think otherwise, you might want to read the last few chapters again.
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