Junto

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Welcome

This Blog is in honor of Benjamin Franklin's Junto. In his own words: I should have mentioned before, that, in the autumn of the preceding year, [1727] I had formed most of my ingenious acquaintance into a club of mutual improvement, which we called the JUNTO; we met on Friday evenings. The rules that I drew up required that every member, in his turn, should produce one or more queries on any point of Morals, Politics, or Natural Philosophy [physics], to be discuss'd by the company; and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing, on any subject he pleased. Our debates were to be under the direction of a president, and to be conducted in the sincere spirit of inquiry after truth, without fondness for dispute or desire of victory; and to prevent warmth, all expressions of positive opinions, or direct contradiction, were after some time made contraband, and prohibited under small pecuniary penalties.
Basically it is a mutual improvement blog, designed to improve the individual and society.

1 Comments:

  • I really like the site, it is very cool. I am excited to learn from everyone that comes here.

    By Blogger Tim, at 11:42 AM  

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