THE ESSENTIAL CONNECTION BETWEEN COMMON SENSE PHILOSOPHY AND LEADERSHIP EXCELLENCE
Journal Title: Studia Gilsoniana - Year 2014, Vol 3, Issue
Abstract
This article argues that, strictly speaking, from its inception with the an-cient Greeks and for all time, philosophy and science are identical and consist in an essential relationship between a specific type of understand-ing of the human person as possessed of an intellectual soul capable of being habituated and a psychologically-independent composite whole, or organization. It maintains, further, that absence of either one of the ex-tremes of this essential relationship cannot be philosophy/science and, if mistaken for such and applied to the workings of cultural institutions, will generate anarchy within human culture and make leadership excellence impossible to achieve. Finally, it argues that only a return to this “common sense” understanding of philosophy can generate the leadership excellence that can save the West from its current state of cultural and civilizational anarchy.
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Peter A. Redpath
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