Years ago in HRE201 (Grade 10 open level religion class) we got a handout paper on Descartes.It brought up "cognito ergo sum" and why "questioning for the sake of questioning" isn't always good...
...I badly wish I knew what it said about that
,even if I'd disagree and/or interpret it a different way,an ad verabitim quote on that would be nice.It's one of those things in life when you've grown to be extra active on thinking why,for what reasons and why your justified in the reasons for something you do...when you know you've come across such reasons long before.A "quasi-answer" to why it can be said that questioning for the sake of questioning can not always be good and even harmful.Umm
? ..the pursuit of knowledge (intellectualism?) is a form of consequentialism/teleology with an undertone making the imperative that the best action is the one that best fosters and promotes knowledge.Add cultural constructs as needed or prefferably not anything else aside from safety and care for life ^4.
To go searching for knowledge is human^1 in the best and worst senses of the word.Do be careful not to fall in the "worst sense" of the word.Too often still w/our organized knowledge we've given into a hokey,junky,linear melliorism that "Logic=rationality.Rationality=progress. Progess=superiority
Therefore if you are against it you are laughably backwards and we are obligated to turn our noses up at you and be arbitrary a----wipes who pretend to not be frail limited human animals like anyone else is unshamably suppose to be"^5.
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade: it makes the hand bleed that wields it. " is what Rabindranath Tagore said ,not even having to say about what chain reaction this sends to epistemology and the engagement of information encoutering,porducing,distrubution and extract we must do/engage in on a daily basis.
B/c knowledge is power^2,wisdome serves and reality^3 resists simplicity.When questioning for the sake of questioning please do consistent check-ups of your conceptual volition so that the "before you know it,your walking on the razor's edge" doesn't happen to you.
^1 and brings out what is human
^2 and power can corrupt
^3 with it's tediousness,subtlities,heavy interonnectiveness and all
^4 B/c many exploitable dinghole peers of yours like business will gladly comprimse safety and evenutally your work b/c you never said anything about safety (by itself)
^5 That dinosaur of thinking/justification is being attacked currently as we are seeing that you can infere out a not-so-anthropogenic form of morality in the form of enviromentalism so neccesary for the plantary help of where you stand on,doing your work.
Business...-_-..I'll see and talk to you soon..
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