“Once the people begin to reason, all is lost” I begin with this quote from the great French philosopher Voltaire, because I think it supports what Fernando Savater spoke about in this chapter. I also think that when we start to reason, is the same as when we start to think, we cease our thirst of learning more, and we conform with what we know. But, Who’s reason is the right one? How do we know who is right and who is not? I think no one really has the reason, because, if I think I am right in something, some guy in some other place with the same line of questioning might think he is right, but with a different answer.
In our times we grow up thinking we know everything and we start to get a little arrogant. But the is a time when we ask, How much we know? And the answer is “we do not know”, and because of this if we think we know something we are lost. I think we should gather almost any knowledge we can of a certain subject and then make one reason from all that knowledge, it can get close to an absolute reason, but it will never be, and reason will always be relative.
Well bernardo I think your post could also be interpred as: Once people starts reasoning(democratic thinking? we should all follow the same line of thoughts and choose whether we want to believe them or not? but the most important, we all need to know the how, why and what) all is lost(talking about monarchy, we know that the principle was that they had divine power) so we say: Once a social type of truth is discovered, all(what they believed in that time) would be questioned= lost?.
ResponderEliminarNice cartoon, I really like it. Another interpretation of Voltaire's quote could be that once we start reasoning, we could go round and round with no end, we could spin ourselves deeper and deeper into a never ending hole of thought and just get "lost" in the process.
ResponderEliminarnice post bernardo, i like your argument that when we grow we think we know everything, and that is the whole truth, because a lot of people think that to say an truth it has to be well proven and have enough arguments to discuss the truth.
ResponderEliminarBernardo I respectfully disagree with you, I don't share your point of view on Voltaire's quote. I too see it the way Miss Allison does. I don't believe that when we start to think we "cease our thirst of learning more", on the contrary, I believe that when you start to use reason to look through life and its problems, you get caught up and gain thirst to dig a little deeper. Anyway that's just my opinion.
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