Tag: free thinking
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Experts’ opinion…
You read philosophy and you are so much interested in the opinion of the “experts”. If only you knew that they just say whatever comes into their heads. Believe in your opinion. The more ignorant you are for a subject, the better grasp you have of it. Pure thought cannot be produced into a university.…
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Close your eyes. See…
When Voyager 2 pivoted back toward Earth from beyond Neptune in 1990, it snapped one of the most famous space pictures: the pale blue dot, with Earth appearing as a lonely speck of light. Astronomers are now designing a new generation of telescopes with hopes of taking a photo of another pale blue dot, this…
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Pope, Marxism, Plato, chairs…
Pope Francis responded to critics who call his stance on capitalism Marxist, saying in a new interview that the political and economic philosophy of marxism is flat “wrong”. (1) Our mania to categorize things and thoughts has ruined our ability to distinguish right from wrong. We can only think with black and white.With “capitalism is right”,…
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Learn how to think.
An article in BBC concerning the teaching of philosophy in French schools. The author honestly speaking his heart out: “If you learn about what Kant or Spinoza once said, it is not so much to understand their argument as to use their argument”. [1] Wow. Not THIS is what I call teaching at its best!…
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