Do you agree or disagree?
2007-08-15 14:17:37 · 13 answers · asked by Lost. at. Sea. 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Only a fool would disagree with Al.
Love and blessings Don
2007-08-15 14:49:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Agree. A lot of good answers to that effect.
To : Generalist
Authority is a random disenfranchisement of the momentarily unpopular. Faith in it is, therefore a priory, foolish.
It is, a priori, the case that the head of a Priory is a Prior.
Even though Albert was wrong about some fundamental things and was a lousy example of a human being, he got this one right
There wasn't too much that Albert got wrong in the context of his 'time' ( hehehehhe), but it always easy to mock using the spectacular vision of 20/20 hindsight. Try looking at his work from a prior perspective, it really wasn't too shabby.
As a human being ??? By what metre do you measure his supposed 'failings' ?
Albert Einstein was one of the outstanding human beings of all time, I believe that we should honour him as such.
2007-08-15 15:49:03 · answer #2 · answered by cosmicvoyager 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I disagree. The worst enemy of truth, in this era, is greed. Greed is far worse because the smart & wealthy use it to coerce the masses for money, while the smartest are voiceless due to lack of funds. While the foolish faith in authority elicited by the masses may be an enemy to truth, where the masses do not question the "truth" provided by the greedy, the source of the corruption is the greed from which the truth is misconstrued into the "truth".
2007-08-15 14:39:33 · answer #3 · answered by Absent Glare 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Authority is a random disenfranchisement of the momentarily unpopular. Faith in it is, therefore a priory, foolish. Even though Albert was wrong about some fundamental things and was a lousy example of a human being, he got this one right.
2007-08-15 15:10:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Agree. Just because a person is in the government does not necessarily mean he or she knows best. The person is still human after all, right? And humans make mistakes. The assumption that the government is always right seems outrageous when we look at the past: to Hitler, to the Japanese evacuations in Canada and California. The government is easily influenced by people in control, and control is easily gained, and can be acquired by unsavory characters with bad intentions. The truest truth comes from a detailed evaluation of ourselves and the people and environment in which we live with other creatures. When one takes the time to evalutate what surrounds him or her, and analyze the information on various levels, then truth can be obtained.
2007-08-15 14:50:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Agree wholeheartedly. The Iraq war is a demonstration. I reckon any religion is another. Truth is a never-ending search. Authority is a full stop - or wants to be. There's a lot of it about. Mostly because most people don't want to take responsibility for themselves or in their community. It's so much easier to leave it to whoever wants control, and blame them for the resulting disasters. And Absent Glare has identified the sub-strata - perhaps because greed is fundamentally an unconsidered focus on self.
2007-08-15 14:53:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I had a teacher who lectured for the first week of school (freshman year in college) then gave a quiz - everyone failed.
"But I took notes - this is what you said - let me show you" - we said. "No, I won't change any grades. That is what I said and what you dutifully wrote down, but I lied, or maybe I was mistaken, if you believe everything a person with a label (professor, doctor, president, contractor, banker, etc.) says to you and never check, you deserve to fail." He never did it again, but he truly changed the way we thought and kept us in the library for many months. I definitely agree.
2007-08-15 16:03:07 · answer #7 · answered by m 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'll answer that with another quote:
"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. "
Mark Twain
Autobiography, 1959
(I love that guy!)
2007-08-15 16:08:53 · answer #8 · answered by NRPeace 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
AGREE! They put the virus in the mind very early then it begins to take over the real person, but we have the key.
2007-08-15 15:38:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
My opinion concur-es (what's with this check spelling); insipid positivity in a or for a person is foolishness, insipid negativity a fools cover for his stupidity and lack of comprehension ('perfectionism').
A truth does exist that not one knows it for knowing it is its existence as truth. Existence as question is the first step for independent truth, this person as a knowing person.
The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.
2007-08-15 15:04:39 · answer #10 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋