05-17-2017, 11:25 PM
(05-17-2017, 09:43 PM)Rorence Wrote: Teach us more in this field. After reading on here, we can learn more in this topic.
I'm not exactly a professor of philosophy (I did take a college philosophy course after I graduated from college, but have read much philosophy -- I'd probably have a much happier life had I been a philosophy major and psychology minor, or vice-versa), but I can tell you that philosophy is the most practical of the liberal arts. It gives us the means of discerning truth from falsehood and helps us discern less-obvious knowledge from more basic knowledge.
Some people are simply good at using logic and care to use it. For some, their discourse is an elaboration of solid logic. For others their murky prose has no logical foundation. Although logic may not be adequate for solving every problem that ever existed, the lack of logic ensures a non-solution. Among the most obvious realities is that one cannot reconcile contradictions.
The curriculum vitae of Donald Trump suggests a learned man, but it would seem that he has either forgotten or he habitually fails to use some enviable schooling. I've known people with eighth-grade education (they got their formal education back in the 1910s and 1920s, so don't expect me to introduce you to them) who showed more ability to think things out than Donald Trump does. Thinking takes effort; I think that Donald Trump is intellectually lazy. That's a pity. I have discovered that thinking can make life far easier and cause me to avoid much grief. That -- and some basic realities of nature. That there is no such thing as a free lunch is an economic restatement of the First Law of Thermodynamics.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.