Categories: All - truth - reality - skepticism - manipulation

by Javier Sánchez-Collado 8 months ago

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Prejudices (when other people think)

Understanding the nature of truth and reality involves recognizing that our perception of reality is influenced by our approach to it. Critical thinking requires both trust and skepticism, as true knowledge often emerges through challenging doubts.

Prejudices (when other people think)

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Summary



We have to respect the truth and reality (what something is)

We have to know that what reality also depends on our approach to it

Critical thinking includes trust and distrust.

"All true knowledge is made against scepticism and through it."

When other people think

Cognitive prejudices

Manipulation

Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them (Rousseau)

Ethical Prejudices

Examples
George Lamaitre
Rosalind FRANKLIN
Ramanujan
The little prince
Problems
Avoiding preconceptions

Is it good?

Trust

Pygmalion effect

Is it possible?

Intelligence without prejudices means intelligence that does not see its own.  



 We believe in many things that we don't believe we believe.

Why don't we listen to reason?

Judging someone or something before getting a piece of good knowledge.

from prae ‘in advance’ + judicium ‘judgement’.



Cliché and platitudes/ hackneyed ideas/ Intellectual fashion




Intellectual fashion: Think like your contemporaries: this is the secret to prosperity and to stupidity.

Example: H. Arendt/Eichmann
What is it?

What is a cliché? What does a hackneyed idea mean? It means those ideas that everybody says or thinks. Who said that? Nobody, everybody... The people. 

Some people live without having thought of anything by themselves