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User:MaynardClark is Maynard S. Clark of Boston and Maynard (dot) Clark (at) gmail (dot) com

  • Maynard (dot) Clark (at) gmail (dot) com

He has long been known for promoting vegan practice and values, founding several vegetarian organizations: Boston Vegetarian Society and Vegetarian Resource Center, urging vegetarians onto the Internet in the 1990s, starting the Boston Vegetarian Food Festival], and popularizing the word Vegan. Why the Word “Vegan” is More Powerful Than Ever. VegNews, retrieved December 26, 2012.</ref>[1] as the core value and guiding principle in a growing system of maturing sophistication for purging harm and cruelty from all that human life does, individually or collectively, while enhancing its own (species and individual) vitality and ecological, economic, social, and geopolitical stability. Fairness for others translates this into physical security for others, at least at the "duty level" of not intending unwarranted injury to others ('dynamic noninjury' or ahimsa).[2][3][4] He is also known for his roles supporting famous Harvard Faculty, specifically Dan Wikler (HSPH) and Leon Eisenberg (HMS). Before that, he was known as "an effective bureaucrat" in various other settings - corporate and academic.

Though they are not structurally related, his current work in the medical ethics area is not discontinuous with work done in Joshua Greene's Moral Cognition Lab in the Department of Psychology located at Harvard University, which studies moral judgment and decision-making using behavioral methods and functional neuroimaging (fMRI). When Maynard was at Harvard Divinity School, he worked with Lawrence Kohlberg's stage theories of moral development and found them to be illuminating descriptions of moral reasoning, but not exhaustive explanations of the nature of right and wrong, good and bad. His work in those periods with youth groups of various ages involved institutionally-supported rudimentary efforts to do observations and implementation of the insights of early moral education protocols.

Maynard has studied many, many, many subjects, mostly in efforts at that time to stay ahead of that time period's "curve". Other family members also loved learning, and some had become 'lifetime students' but denounced such aspirations (or inclinations). While college and university Faculty are 'lifetime students' for pay, "the odds" of competing successfully are low, so why not seek a time-honored profession (or a job)? Life can be a series of forays into knowledge reservoirs and knowledge production, but with Wikipedia. he can constructively engage many topics ('giving back is widely encouraged'). Maynard S. Clark of Boston has been featured in Marquis Who's Who since the early 1990s.

Formative Early Years[edit | edit source]

Unremarkably, Maynard began life at a very young age and learned early some of the most basic lessons about taking from the environment what is needed: air, water, food, and both manufactured (clothing and more) and social (love, affection, education, language, insights) products. For most of us, much of our earlier living is quickly forgotten, then recalled later in life as being among the most important, formative, and satisfying of life's times. This section will not attempt to relive or chronicle those fondly-recalled events of early life. However, insights would be lost if one didn't recall and ponder the far-reaching social and psychological influences of his and other's earliest crises and the surrounding love of others, whoever they were at the time, in their then-present stages of development and maturity.

There's home and home influences of family friends and neighbors, who are discussed in person but not on the Internet.

Then there are the professional educators. As professionals often do, Maynard S. Clark took instruction under several great teachers; quite a large amount of this sitting under the tutelage of great teachers was outside or orthogonal to the credentialing educational system.

References[edit | edit source]

  1. In the earliest 20th century days of using the word vegan in England, the phrase 'vegetarianism proper' was also used to describe the consistent practice of dietary veganism. Several nuances of that word has been identified, but the concept of 'ethical veganism' can be further subdivided into underlying assumptions and sets of value systems that require the vegan dietary practice and determine the degree of economic involvements which overtly or tacitly support or endorse the exploitation of unconsenting nonhuman persons, and for many, the degree of public opposition to economic and political enslavement of nonhumans. These can be seen as markers in the journey to bookmark the clear positions of conscience in a confusing market-defined complex of entangelement with hinsa (hinsic entangelement).
  2. Buddhist ethics
  3. Ahimsa in Jainism
  4. H. Jay Dinshah