Walking around Ica i came to realize that we despise religions mostly for their blind faith, but that, at the same time, it’s neither possible or desirable to get rid of blind faith. Again: not desirable.
It’s just too easy to find gruesome examples of blind faith, but there is also another dimension to it. We need blind faith — or something like it — to make us strong and beautiful. It’s a matter of pedagogy, and of politics. Read More »
§ A belief ain’t a basic unit of cognition. It is a unit of one kind of behaviour, one kind amongst many.
§ Beliefs are related to memories, but there are important differences.
§ The number of new ideas you can have increases with each new idea you have.
§ A good translation for “belief” is “what you hold dear”.
Paul, over at Café Philos, seem to believe that some opinions are as firm as rock. More precisely, he did complain about young people showing their adolescent rebellion in the form of the statement “everything is just an opinion and nothing is certain”. Well, i just thought i had a somehow different experience with the issue.
In Paul’s opinion, denying certainties is an adolescent attitude. Contrarily, when i was younger, i used to assume that people older than me would know what they were talking about. I was very comfortable in taking other’s opinions for facts and not doubt them too much. Paul says that “forming your own opinion” is required part of a healthy education but, for me, adolescent rebellion was always a bore. Even in myself. Read More »
Is it not obvious the correspondence between this article’s title and the blog’s name? Nevertheless, i want to ask: is it possible? Can truth exist in lower-case? Can we propose a kind of truth not so much so absolute and irrevocable? A truth that we trust in without thinking it is the end of story? After all, that would be practical and sensible. I will once more try to argue that truth cannot be but upper-case, by definition. »
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