2006-10-22 06:59:57 · 11 answers · asked by leungwtv 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It means he is questioning something that is, on one level or another, assumed. He causes people to look a something in a different light, or even to look at it at all.
2006-10-22 07:02:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put this question in Politics also, it is very good! My philosophy on your question is: who was the "thinker" who created the formula, that lead us to the peril the World is in today? Well, my take on your question is: YOU! All of the American Citizens, you see why, well when these scientists defected under Hitlers' domination, the US took them in, and you developed the Atomic Age! The first example being Hiroshima! So - do you have an understanding now of the meaning? I hope so, because an example closer to home is your President, he didn't think things thru, and now he is back tracking, your Nation is in disarray, your crime rate has increased 3 folds in less than 1/2 a decade! Anti-Americanism is throughout the world, because of your President. You, as a citizen, must take part of the responsibility, your Nation elected him. Now you have taken an "apparent stable world in peril"!
2006-10-22 15:41:16 · answer #2 · answered by peaches 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A true critical thinker may well question the false foundations of an apparent stable world.
Our world is largely held together by assumptions and held beliefs with facts thrown here and there.
2006-10-22 14:50:57 · answer #3 · answered by sotu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that when you dare to think and question things, then nothing is stable. Nothing is absolutely true or accurate. There is an element of doubt and you are no longer secure. The world is more safe when questions aren't asked & you just accept what is. It's scary to acknowledge that things may not be as they seem.
2006-10-22 14:35:41 · answer #4 · answered by amp 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it means that anyone who is a thinker, rocks the boat, has the potential to change the way they view their world.
2006-10-22 14:09:29 · answer #5 · answered by Diana P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are loosing their faith in the status quo.
They have no faith in a changing world beyond their control profit orientation institutional constitution with free thought being so chaotic and creative and such
To the free thinker it's hey man come on
you can do better
Look what they;ve done to my dream man
look what they' ve done to my brain.
look what they've done o my song
Ob1
2006-10-22 16:29:08 · answer #6 · answered by old_brain 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means that thought is our only hope of avoiding the entropy which naturally occurs in an unchanging, stable system. It is only thought that allows us to add energy to our social system and defeat entropy.
Peril is fear and thinking is the only way to approach it and overcome it.
2006-10-22 14:08:22 · answer #7 · answered by anyone 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means to every thinker "Don't rock the boat".
2006-10-22 14:04:47 · answer #8 · answered by whyme? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When one thinks, there will be some sort of resolution, not all of them good, the collective of negativity has brought our world where it is today.
2006-10-22 14:18:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i believe it means to keep cool. and keep it simple. do not lose sight of what the percieved "norm" is in times of trouble. keep your eye on the ball.
2006-10-22 19:06:16 · answer #10 · answered by annilori 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋