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""Thoughts on Philosophy"" by Ernest Rodriguez
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THOUGHTS ON PHILOSOPHY Beware of the love of philosophy for it can make you senile at an early age. It can reduce your passions for the ideal, fervor for contemporary goal and render you impotent to initiate action. It will propel you so far into a progression that leads you to a state of retroregression and projected hindsight. People whose thinking and reasoning is restricted or imprisoned by dogma, doctrine, methodology, a systematic philosophy, remain regardless of their intelligence, in a vacuum, an intellectual limbo. They can escape only if they abandon prejudiced evaluation of a contrary view and submit it to the same intellectual scrutiny, and investigation that they applied to those views they have embraced so lovingly. The path to true understanding is to be skeptical of what you accept readily as true or right. Will your self to lay aside judgement until you have weighted all arguments against it. Give it it's day in the court of reason, then if after the final analysis you are compelled to accept it as true with or without reservations yet still refrain from accepting it as absolute. When proving a point endeavor to transmit understanding rather than adding to your conviction. Employ an in depth logic using all the essential factors of commonality, relevance and dramatism. Ernest Rodriguez
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THOUGHTS ON PHILOSOPHY Beware of the love of philosophy for it can make you senile at an early age. It can reduce your passions for the ideal, fervor for contemporary goal and render you impotent to initiate action. It will propel you so far into a progression that leads you to a state of retroregression and projected hindsight. People whose thinking and reasoning is restricted or imprisoned by dogma, doctrine, methodology, a systematic philosophy, remain regardless of their intelligence, in a vacuum, an intellectual limbo. They can escape only if they abandon prejudiced evaluation of a contrary view and submit it to the same intellectual scrutiny, and investigation that they applied to those views they have embraced so lovingly. The path to true understanding is to be skeptical of what you accept readily as true or right. Will your self to lay aside judgement until you have weighted all arguments against it. Give it it's day in the court of reason, then if after the final analysis you are compelled to accept it as true with or without reservations yet still refrain from accepting it as absolute. When proving a point endeavor to transmit understanding rather than adding to your conviction. Employ an in depth logic using all the essential factors of commonality, relevance and dramatism. Ernest Rodriguez
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