2006-06-13 05:41:48 · 21 answers · asked by tarun r 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
cause you don,t even know that you don,t know---happy happy joy joy !!!
2006-06-13 05:45:26 · answer #1 · answered by Bobby 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Knowledge is Power.
Power Corrupts
therefore,
Ignorance is Bliss.
2006-06-13 12:46:03 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignorance is bliss only in the very temporal sense. In the end, you're better off knowing than not knowing, especially if you have the power to know. If you choose to remain ignorant, while you may seem happier in the short run, you will have wasted your potential in the long run.
Also, being virtuous is not always fun. It requres hard work to remain virtuous in a world of vice. But being virtuous results in mastering of the passions by reason, which will make sure that you are not a slave to your passions.
2006-06-18 22:40:55 · answer #3 · answered by mle_trogdor2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ignorance is a lack of facts. You don't know something, so you are blissfully unaware of it.
The world ends tomorrow due to a meteor strike. You didn't hear about it, you are blissfully ignorant of it.
Knowledge is NOT knowing the facts. That is useless. You know the meteor is going to strike. So what? You can't stop it. You have facts, you cannot act on them. The meteor still hits.
But if you know about them, and can react, say, send an atomic missile up there to blow that sucker up, ah, then you are talking knowledge, and it is a virtue.
Ignorance is the lack of facts. Knowledge is knowing both the facts, and how to use them to effect an outcome. There is a gap in between the two, and that is what you missed.
2006-06-13 12:51:00 · answer #4 · answered by diogenese19348 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who said knowledge is a virtue? Sometimes knowledge is bliss
2006-06-20 05:58:09 · answer #5 · answered by GOUTVOLS 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What does one have to do with the other? Virtue and bliss are completely different.
2006-06-13 12:45:06 · answer #6 · answered by lianebblue 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All knowledge is power. Many people can't handle power.
There are things in this world you are far better off not knowning because you lack the maturity to handle them. This is not a knock against you, but the a fact about everyone. Believe me, there is knowledge in this world that can destroy you just by knowing it.
2006-06-13 12:48:29 · answer #7 · answered by cigarsmoke1982 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are ignorant, you go on believing everything that you think is correct. It is blissful to imagine that you are always correct. Knowledge comes partly from acknowledging that you sometimes wrong and is therefore virtuous.
2006-06-13 12:45:48 · answer #8 · answered by Michael F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amended quote by GB:
Wanting knowledge is a virtue but truly getting it sucks.
2006-06-13 12:45:20 · answer #9 · answered by myanjill 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because one is a sin (ignorance)
And the other(Knowledge) is a virtue
7 sins...7 virtues..
2006-06-13 12:48:27 · answer #10 · answered by froggen616 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard that knowledge is a virtue.
2006-06-13 12:43:53 · answer #11 · answered by teena9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋