Saturday, September 10, 2022

It's Complicated: Amidst The Interminable Sprawl Of Individual "World Views," How Can We Determine That Our Own View Is The One, True, Universal View?

 

Alan Archibald

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The following article is as bizarre as it gets.
Yet it spotlights every individual's self-sequestration in their own "siloed" world view, each of us completely normalizing our view so that, unless we are both skeptical and eager to modify our view -- or at least enlarge our world view's overarching context with counterveiling views -- in particular by making use of the Scientific Method's determination to prove ourselves wrong -- we become captive parrots of wishful thinking and confirmation bias.
Notably, Thomas Aquinas - arguably the world's most influential philosopher - spent decades of dedicated work to his Summa Theologica when he underwent the following transformation: "On the feast of St. Nicholas [in 1273, Aquinas] was celebrating Mass when he received a revelation that so affected him that he wrote and dictated no more, leaving his great work the Summa Theologiae unfinished. To Brother Reginald’s (his secretary and friend) expostulations he replied, “The end of my labors has come. All that I have written appears to be as so much straw after the things that have been revealed to me.” When later asked by Reginald to return to writing, Aquinas said, “I can write no more. I have seen things that make my writings like straw.”
Here is the bizarre article I mentioned above:
It is always useful - if not crucial - to keep in mind that even the best read people only read a thousand books in their lives, and most well-educated people read fewer than 500 (not counting romances and "penny dreadfuls."
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