Wisconsin College of the Air; Introduction to the human enterprise; 12; The Art of thinking

I read philosophy on the human enterprise selected from lectures recorded in the classroom of Professor Max auto with today's lecture Professor Otto returns to ideas and problems directly related to the textbook material with which the students have been dealing in the course. The specific subject of this lecture is the art of thinking. I had a hard time making up my mind not to do this morning. When I want to talk to you about why this is something you grow out of that statement by William James rather than the parts of an object have already been he does learn and he made the object of all of us special discriminative. You when you discriminated an object taking that apart so that you see parts of it. We can with difficulty feel the object

again in its pristine unity. The baby they the baby hasn't done that. The baby assailed by my eyes ears nose skin and trailed at once. Feels it all as one of the great blooming buzzing confusion. I want to start with that. Part about what we do begin with. You when you read the second chapter in that book you're reading. Those of you who did those voluntary papers on that read and wrote about it. Most of you objected to what the author says about chaos. You know he takes a position that there is no experience of chaos and and most of us breaking most of the objected to that. And as a result of what you said the first two or three papers

I took them in my stride. I was still alright but when they kept coming at me or think about a little bit. And when you got through I decided that if I had that to do over again right over again. I wouldn't sad as it is said there. I wouldn't say on page 34 obits page 34 page 34 end of the first paragraph. You know where is their experience of chaos. I would say nowhere in their chaos. Nothing is a law and nowhere nowhere is there chaos. That's the way I'd said instead of nothing is a law and nowhere is there experience of chaos. And I won't discuss it now I've made up my mind. I want We'll talk about that a little later. In place of that since we're going on from now to the end of the list then I'm going on expressing

such views as I have. I thought maybe we ought to begin by talking about thinking of. Soul that maybe you could this morning be encouraged to think a little more as you listen and then as you read that book. A few months before he died were a quire leaned over here. Who it was who. Yesterday. Very great Boston marked one star man is a very great Boston margin. FURIA a field mice before he died a few years ago. He invited a group of. Publicists educate RS psychologists like

wine lists and others to a donor conference. And talk to them about a problem that was on his mind and on these are not problem was this how to get the American people how to teach them. How to encourage them how to think instead of what. And when they got through dinner he presented this problem to them and he said I have a check for $10000 here and I'll add to it later on. If it's necessary if you people. Suggest a way of doing that how to think less of want to think you know these gentlemen being gay where you know it all began to tell him why that couldn't be done.

And when I mean it was over he had quite a number of ideas. Why you couldn't do anything about it. And no idea what to do. Now he should have been discouraged completely discouraged and quit. But he didn't. A little later than that he had another dinner conference and invited some people in New York the same kinds of people they had to dinner in New York City. And there he presented his problem again. There he had the same experience again. And at this time at this dinner when they were through. In the smoke filled room he handed the check over to a committee which he appointed on the spot choosing three names at random. And he said here is this check for $10000. Go ahead and use it. Use it any way you want as long as you keep in mind what we're after. The American people have to be thought how to think and get over

this. What to think. I watched what happened. Nothing very much happened beyond spending the money. They did succeed in spending the money and I believe the movement started from that and I don't know what happened. To the mood now great margin. And he was a great merchant a great merchant and he was a very interesting man.