Posts filed under “Philosophy”
Become better without suffering.
Many of us have heard this since we were kids, heard it from elders and from teachers. Why would suffering make us into better people? I recently had a visit from a friend who was going through a difficult time, with both a career change and personal problems. Through watching him over the few weeks [...]
Journalism should not be “objective.”
1) Objectivity is an illusion. I wrote a ridiculous entry on this the other day, but the point is that, simply by moving from an event to writing or videotaping the event, there is an ever present and strong cast that a reporter’s own perception makes on the event. 2) As a result of the [...]
Assertion cannot always be verbalized.
We can, in broad terms, speak of two formulations of knowledge: objective and subjective. Objective truth identifies the existence of reality without human perception; subjective truth claims, vaguely speaking, that no such thing exists outside of human and social construction (constructivism).
The method never justifies the product.
What do these posts have in common?: If you get it wrong, the voice comes on the line to tell you. Hey, since you know what I did wrong and you know what I meant to do, why not just fix it? If I dial a number and forget the “1″, just insert the 1 [...]