[MD] Food for Thought

[ian glendinning]

David M, (DMB mentioned)

Just tying up pre-Christmas loose ends ...
I think we moved this point into the "social imposition" thread ... OK ?

You make additional points, DMB please note ...
(1) "But we always accept some authority and what we are being told."
I believe this is Rhetoric 3 per my Wayne Booth blog post some weeks
ago. (David Granger responded incidentally.)

DMB, there are also a couple of unresponded posts from you to me
earlier in this thread. Do you want me to go back, or are we covered
by other more recent posts ?


Ian

On 12/17/06, David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Ian said to Arlo:
> > When you say
> > But this is not without its pitfalls. For example, we consider the "belief
> > in
> > god" to be a social pattern, but the "belief in physics" to be an
> > intellectual
> > pattern.
> ... believing (faith-based belief) in a religious god, is just as mental
> > an activity as having faith in other forms of rationality.
>
>
> DM: I think there is a possible distinction here, in that
> religion is often accepted due to tradition and authority
> from parents and community. At least with science it
> may come from teachers or books written by scientist
> so they may have some professional status in society
> to support what they are handing down. Obviously we
> get into real intellect when you are really assessing ideas
> on the basis of their intellectual qualities and with as
> little faith in authority as is possible. But we always
> accept some authority and what we are being told,
> because we cannot rely only on our own experience.
> But we certainly need to question the basis on which
> we accept the knowledge and intellectual authority of
> others. Its usually quite easy to differentiate the truth
> seekers from the power seekers.
>
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