by sMartins » Wed Oct 05, 2022 5:47 pm
MYSIA
"If you've found an answer to all your questions, it signifies your questions were wrong".
Oscar Wilde
Mysia: "I don't think so good"
First of all, who put this crap in your head? I find what you wrote much more interesting than 99% of what I hear around in everyday life. Also what you wrote shows that you think and that is already much more than what most people do. I wouldn't feel sorry for myself by saying, well, I can't think that well anyway, at most I can say, I'm lazy and I don't feel like struggling to learn.
When one asks a question, maybe, it is not the right question, maybe one needs to deepen this question, to see if the terms in which it is asked are the correct ones and that it really responds to a need that formulated the question.
Then, the serious problem, is not to give answers, especially when it comes to the life world, but it is to radicalize the questions.
The problem is to stop by the question, stay within the question, the answers are inessential, history went on because there were questions to be asked, not because quick answers follow one another that close the circle of the question.
So it is best to start by asking, what is truth?
Let us begin by saying that truth must be sought.
We, in the West, have known basically two methods, the catechetical method, which is of Christian origin, according to which, there is a constituted knowledge and people who possess it, what is called "ecclesia docens", and then there are those who must learn this truth, which comes from above, which comes from authority, which comes from tradition, which comes from religion, which comes from habits.
This is the catechetical method: I teach you and you learn, unfortunately on this method the school is still organized today.
Whereas the other one is the Socratic method, which starts from the belief that truth dwells in all men and therefore is not the deposit of an elite of men. It dwells in all men, only it dwells in a confused way.
Plato says truth dwells in us like Glaucus at the bottom of the sea, where the shells, the brushwood, the weeds make Glaucus unrecognized but Glaucus is there. That is how the truth is, the truth is in each of us, the problem is to bring it out.
So what does it mean to stop by the question?
To take away from Glaucus the brushwoods, the shells, the mud so that this truth comes out.
I'd hardly call anything the Bible of our times » special thanks to MagicManICT
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