A volume drawn from Auburn's Franklin Lectures in the Sciences and Humanities, with Fuller arguing for education toward comprehensivity and a working partnership of the sciences and humanities. Gathers contributions toward shaping a benign human environment.

Approaching the Benign Environment

R. Buckminster Fuller, one of the best known and most admired of contemporary Americans, has a unique record of accomplishment as scientist, philosopher, mathematician, inventor, architectural engineer, and writer.

Core structure

The Contributors
Education for Comprehensivity
Engineers and the Nation's Future
Toward a Working Partnership of the Sciences and Humanities
Chapter 3: Toward a Working Partnership of the Sciences and Humanities

Main ideas

Fuller participates in the distinguished Franklin Lectures in the Sciences and Humanities at Auburn, treating it as an honor and a privilege.
When such cordial things are said by way of introduction, he reminds himself that he is not impressed, because he knows himself too well.
A very diverse group of about thirty-five people — scientists, scholars in the humanities, creative artists, social scientists, and administrators — found fairly quickly one area of substantial agreement.

Why it matters

It documents a Fuller-related source project in a form that can be compared against the rest of the corpus, capturing his case for education toward comprehensivity and a partnership between the sciences and humanities.

Sources

approaching_the_benign_environment/index.md — book project directory (repo-local source tree)
approaching_the_benign_environment.md — full book text
approaching_the_benign_environment/ — source project root

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