Tag: Knowledge
Why We Should Reform Education
This is a critical synthesis of my main thoughts on education of the past 2-3 years. I find it a fertile idea to assume that schooling exists to transmit to youths a body of knowledge that cannot be transmitted by the parents, for two reasons: 1. The knowledge that must be passed on to the [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2011 under Philosophy.
Tags: Children, Education, Knowledge, Learning, News/Information, Schooling, Synthesis, Web
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Equality and the Meaning of Wealth, Part 1
The concept of “wealth” is a recurrent theme in debates between the right and left: each side believes that their system has the most ethical way of managing wealth. The perspective we will defend here is our own – that of the left. First, it is essential to define “wealth”. As core premise of our [...]
Posted: April 14th, 2011 under Politics.
Tags: Equality, Freedom, Heylighen, Knowledge, Left, Meaning, Right, Satisfaction, Wealth
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Do You Understand?
Do you understand this sentence? Just what do we understand? What is understanding? Just what do we know in the end? Without questions, implicit or explicit, comprehension holds no meaning. Even questioning – and rejecting – knowledge yields knowledge and not semantic void. There is simply no semantic void: everything within the human mind holds [...]
Posted: January 19th, 2011 under Philosophy, Writings.
Tags: Happiness, Knowledge, Love, Personal Reality, Perspective, Philosophical Labyrinth, Soulfuck, Understanding
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The Tale of the Lighthouse-seeker
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” ~ Lewis Carroll
Posted: August 5th, 2010 under Philosophy, Writings.
Tags: Knowledge, Lighthouse, Personal Reality, Reality, Relativity, Tale, Truth, Universe
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