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		<title>By: Fred Leland</title>
		<link>http://donvandergriff.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/obstacles-to-adaptability/#comment-43</link>
		<dc:creator>Fred Leland</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you are cheering a &quot;worthy cause&quot; then have at it! A worthy cause should be enveloped in &quot;Truth and Integrity.&quot; If not and your cheerleading is only a form of self-deception or deception of others. It will quickly be seen for what it is. NON-SENSE! Making people feel good, via deception is not the answer to adaptation of an organization or individual for that matter. Truth and forthrightness, seems to have taken a back seat to  political correctness and going along with the &quot;status quo.&quot; Standing up and walking the talk; talk that is based on truth is a big key to individual and organizational learning, adaptation and growth. TRUTH spoken is how we learn! Great post!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you are cheering a &#8220;worthy cause&#8221; then have at it! A worthy cause should be enveloped in &#8220;Truth and Integrity.&#8221; If not and your cheerleading is only a form of self-deception or deception of others. It will quickly be seen for what it is. NON-SENSE! Making people feel good, via deception is not the answer to adaptation of an organization or individual for that matter. Truth and forthrightness, seems to have taken a back seat to  political correctness and going along with the &#8220;status quo.&#8221; Standing up and walking the talk; talk that is based on truth is a big key to individual and organizational learning, adaptation and growth. TRUTH spoken is how we learn! Great post!</p>
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		<title>By: Duncan Kinder</title>
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		<dc:creator>Duncan Kinder</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This strikes me as a variation of the theme Aristotle makes in his &lt;i&gt;Politics&lt;/i&gt;, where he asserts that a good society is a society in which a good man can be a good citizen.

He uses both &quot;good man&quot; and &quot;good citizen&quot; as terms of art.  &quot;Good citizen,&quot; which he describes in some length in the &lt;i&gt;Politics&lt;/i&gt;, basically is someone who can further the goals of the society to which he belongs.  A stalwart SS officer would have been a &quot;good citizen&quot; of Nazi Germany.  Socrates, Christ, Thomas More, and other martyrs were not &quot;good citizens&quot; of their respective societies.

Aristotle does not define &quot;good man&quot; in his &lt;i&gt;Politics&lt;/i&gt;.  However, it is generally understood that the qualities he sets forth in his &lt;i&gt;Nichomachean Ethics&lt;/i&gt; define what he means by the &quot;good man.&quot;  This broadly resembles the &quot;truthteller&quot; you are referring to - although obviously in his book length discussion; he discusses many other qualities as well.  The proud, arrogant, domineering Coriolanus, I am sorry to say, falls short of many of Aristotle&#039;s criteria for the &quot;good man.&quot;

In any event, Aristotle also wrote the &lt;i&gt;Rhetoric&lt;/i&gt;, the art of persuasion, the purpose of which was to enable people to speak the truth in a manner that others would find to be persuasive - thereby enabling society to move from some relatively bad state to one somewhat better.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This strikes me as a variation of the theme Aristotle makes in his <i>Politics</i>, where he asserts that a good society is a society in which a good man can be a good citizen.</p>
<p>He uses both &#8220;good man&#8221; and &#8220;good citizen&#8221; as terms of art.  &#8220;Good citizen,&#8221; which he describes in some length in the <i>Politics</i>, basically is someone who can further the goals of the society to which he belongs.  A stalwart SS officer would have been a &#8220;good citizen&#8221; of Nazi Germany.  Socrates, Christ, Thomas More, and other martyrs were not &#8220;good citizens&#8221; of their respective societies.</p>
<p>Aristotle does not define &#8220;good man&#8221; in his <i>Politics</i>.  However, it is generally understood that the qualities he sets forth in his <i>Nichomachean Ethics</i> define what he means by the &#8220;good man.&#8221;  This broadly resembles the &#8220;truthteller&#8221; you are referring to &#8211; although obviously in his book length discussion; he discusses many other qualities as well.  The proud, arrogant, domineering Coriolanus, I am sorry to say, falls short of many of Aristotle&#8217;s criteria for the &#8220;good man.&#8221;</p>
<p>In any event, Aristotle also wrote the <i>Rhetoric</i>, the art of persuasion, the purpose of which was to enable people to speak the truth in a manner that others would find to be persuasive &#8211; thereby enabling society to move from some relatively bad state to one somewhat better.</p>
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		<title>By: fnord</title>
		<link>http://donvandergriff.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/obstacles-to-adaptability/#comment-38</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Followed here from over at abumuqawama.blogspot.com. Have you considered how this works in a military setting? Because the US military seems to have a heck of a lot of it...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Followed here from over at abumuqawama.blogspot.com. Have you considered how this works in a military setting? Because the US military seems to have a heck of a lot of it&#8230;</p>
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