Title
Foundational Urgency and Institutional Inertia
Description
Typescript of a lecture delivered on January 10, 2025, by Annapolis tutor Greg Recco as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Recco offers this description: This lecture will examine the difficulty of sustaining collective action. In working together, we respond to exigent circumstances, but the social structures we thereby create have exigencies of their own. To the student of history, it can even seem inevitable that temporary triumph yield to eventual failure. Central chapters of Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason will help illuminate essential reasons for the tendency of effective groups to turn into ineffective institutions, and some remarks on Plato's Republic (particularly Books 1 and 8) will frame the inquiry.
Mr. Recco offers this description: This lecture will examine the difficulty of sustaining collective action. In working together, we respond to exigent circumstances, but the social structures we thereby create have exigencies of their own. To the student of history, it can even seem inevitable that temporary triumph yield to eventual failure. Central chapters of Jean-Paul Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason will help illuminate essential reasons for the tendency of effective groups to turn into ineffective institutions, and some remarks on Plato's Republic (particularly Books 1 and 8) will frame the inquiry.
Creator
Publisher
Coverage
Annapolis, MD
Date
2025-01-10
Rights
St. John's College has permission to make this item available online.
Type
text
Format
pdf
Subject
Language
English
Identifier
LEC_Recco_Greg_2025-01-10
Original Format
pdf
Page numeration
22 pages