{"id":5809,"date":"2015-04-30T20:04:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T20:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=5809"},"modified":"2015-04-26T20:06:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T20:06:15","slug":"the-discipline-of-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/?p=5809","title":{"rendered":"The discipline of craft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/crawford.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-5810 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/crawford.jpg\" alt=\"crawford\" width=\"477\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/crawford.jpg 391w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/crawford-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thedorseypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/crawford-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a>More about this excellent book by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22237171-the-world-beyond-your-head\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Crawford<\/a> later, a great follow-up to his first, but couldn&#8217;t resist putting this out there, while I&#8217;m reading it:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;But consider that when you go deep into some particular skill or art, it trains your powers of concentration and perception. You become more discerning about the objects you are dealing with and, if all goes well, begin to care viscerally about quality, because you have been initiated into an ethic of caring about what you are doing. Usually this happens by the example of some particular person, a mentor, who exemplifies that spirit of craftsmanship. You hear disgust in his voice, or see pleasure on his face, in response to some detail that would be literally invisible to someone not initiated. In this way, judgment develops alongside emotional involvement, unified in what Polanyi calls personal knowledge. Technical training in such a setting, though narrow in its immediate application, may be understood as part of education in the broadest sense: intellectual and moral formation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8211;Matthew Crawford, <em>The World Beyond Your Head<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think he means ethical formation in the sense of <em>ethos<\/em>, but I own&#8217;t argue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More about this excellent book by Matthew Crawford later, a great follow-up to his first, but couldn&#8217;t resist putting this out there, while I&#8217;m reading it: &#8220;But consider that when you go deep into some particular skill or art, it trains your powers of concentration and perception. 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