Students of philosophy are keen to approach the limits of understanding and to reconnoiter the areas of insufficiency (in the matter of their relevance and comprehensiveness to the limits) as well as to test the pillars of necessity (in the matter of their validity in forward deployment upon fallacy and misunderstanding). All this entails often a perplexed intimacy with doubt, or a practised doubt, that is a working out of tenuous positions and perspectives which concern no specific issue or particular dilemma. However, when a specific question arises and with it comes ready answers, it should strike the student as emanating from dogma. When this dogma is in the area of politics or economics, it will have that hue of propaganda. In its hue, there will be aberrations to truth and to commitments to truth-making. When adherence to truth is lacking or when effacing truth is practised, the student will have a role in respect to confronting its workings. This is only to set the matter of sufficiency and necessity in the limits of the understanding into motion where they have been clogged. Once this dual dynamism is again moving and the limits of the understanding are broader in the horizon, the student may then return to universal problems of philosophy which are of no particular concern to anyone.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 04:59:54 +0000
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