by azajonc | Nov 13, 2015
Using concepts from science and the contemplative traditions, Arthur Zajonc explores the ethical implications of abstract and reductionist views, and how moral imagination and agency can be cultivated. Mind and Morality: Where Do They Meet? (May 2015) Contemplative...
by azajonc | Nov 13, 2015
“Eros and Insight” was the name of a course taught with colleague Joel Upton at Amherst College. The course explored the relationship between love and knowledge and addressed questions concerning the different ways in which we know and our capacities for love....
by azajonc | Nov 13, 2015
Arthur Zajonc began writing about the contemplative dimension of teaching, learning and knowing in 1996, as a response to the increasing abstraction of higher education. He has become a leading voice in the development of contemplative pedagogy, which calls for new...
by azajonc | Nov 13, 2015
Through his professor Ernst Katz at the University of Michigan, Arthur Zajonc was introduced to the work of Rudolf Steiner, and began an inquiry with the archetypal question: What is the relationship between knowledge (especially scientific knowledge) and...
