Wednesday, 25 July 2012

Philosophical Musings 93-96

93) Our bigotry and prejudice is rooted in unreliable information. We delude ourselves when we call such information "knowledge". Bigotry and prejudice is never rooted in True Knowledge.


94) Without real practical experience of something all criticism of it is suspect.


95) So long as those who think of themselves as "friends of reason" lack emotional intelligence, their "reason" or "rationality" will lead nowhere.


96) We in the West live mainly in our heads, in our thinking, and most of our thinking is automatic thinking. Our automatic thinking also analyses what is wrong with the world and suggests what the solutions may be, always in a manner which is both subjective and superficial. Two words which hint at what objective solutions might be are Conscience and Sensitivity but Conscience and Sensitivity cannot be approached through thinking automatically. We need to sense and feel the significance of these two words.