• Holloway Quarterly

    Why We Need This Blog!

    In their recent book, Good Work, Howard Gardner, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and William Damon write that the solutions to ethical and professional dilemmas have traditionally found answers in religious texts and traditions. Times have changed and many find answers (or no answers) elsewhere. However, they also make the following claim: “even when… the relevant texts have been studied, it is becoming increasingly difficult to know just how to draw inspiration from models [like Christianity] in vastly changing circumstances.” In other words, say our authors, it is not merely a lack of knowledge, but a lack of relationship between knowledge and life. Although our authors go on to propose an alternative set of strategies for ethical dilemmas…