B.A., M.A., Philosophy, Rutgers University
D Phil et Litt Candidate, Corporate & Organizational Ethics
Corporate Acts - Their Ontological Status & Ethical Significance
Department of Philosophy, University of South Africa
Professor Mogobe B Ramose, Thesis Supervisor
610.253.9999
jonathan.matas@desales.edu
Too many organizations, including colleges and universities, have set up elaborate web sites built on the assumption that the "off-campus" citizenry has access to as much bandwidth as they [as, indeed, some of their "on-campus" students] do. This site has been designed principally for the off-campus student-user with less than the very latest in web access technology, i.e., the viewer with, at most, a 56K modem, which is much slower than a typical corporate or institutional connection, and an ordinary dial-up telephone connection through a local ISP, i.e., a very narrow "pipe" between one's computer and the rest of the world beyond the curb.
Education on and through the "web" should ultimately be about the democracy of equal "access", and not the myopic individualistic elitism of libertarian excess. The use, therefore, of a teaching/learning educational website should not present a daunting prospect to anyone. This site has, accordingly, been designed for the user who is looking for a "best value" place, in terms of time spent, of "higher learning"! Moreover, I built this site for my own ease of use as much as for yours.
My ultimate test, then, for the "friendliness" of this site consisted of two criteria - If I got impatient waiting for my own stuff to download, & If I also got impatient wading through my own stuff, then I concluded it would be just too much of a waste of time for others, no matter how "uncool" some of the elitist "dot.commers" might think it is. Time, like venture capital, is too valuable a resource for them or us to waste. We should spend most of our time on the web learning new stuff, not waiting for it to get to us. Exceptions? Since I have no control over the design of other sites, accessing some of the links from this site may require a little patience. By-and large, however, philosophical websites tend to be as minimalist as mine.
Unlike marketing, "packaging" in philosophy is worthless. Structure and substance are everything! Philosophy is done and communicated through well-organized words. In time, however, I might add pictures and other "web stuffing". But only as long as the stuff takes less than 15 seconds to download. Maybe this will counter the short iconic attention spans of an increasing number of the music-video-entranced students who seem to be paradigm cases of the ADD syndrome. In any case, some of the links from this site will have more than enough in the way of graphics to try your patience, especially if you who want to get on with seeing how others are "doing" philosophy.
How is this site useful? It contains two kinds of resources:
[1] Selected links to substantive Internet resources for a given topic
[2] Instructions, with examples, on how to use search engines and web directories to quickly locate substantive resources
While not all of the internal topic links for this site are yet active, its basic structure is in place. Please return periodically to view it as it develops and undergoes an on-going restructuring.
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