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2007-09-29 01:05:44 · 6 answers · asked by Third P 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
You seem to have in mind a three-part inquiry. First, identify the greatest error. Second, find its roots. Third, find reasons for those roots. But isn't the metaphor of a "root" just another way of identifying reasons? And to say that a reason is "underlying" sounds like another metaphor for rootedness -- roots are underground, after all.
Still, I'll give it a go.
The greatest error in philosophy is the belief in Truth with a capital "T," i.e. in Truth as a sort of impersonal God to be worshipped or served independent of specific beliefs and their consequences. This error is part of the system of ideas behind Hegelianism, which gave rise to both red and brown political disasters.
The root of this error is the love of abstraction.
The "underlying reason" behind the love of abstraction is, perhaps, the pride of intellectuals, the "treason of the clerics."
2007-09-29 09:14:22 · answer #1 · answered by Christopher F 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Even a genuine and smart philosopher can be susceptible to major error if and when he/she gets affected by ego or deep emotional attachment.
Subjectivity is the greatest enemy of any philosophical thought or idea.
2007-09-29 03:06:50 · answer #2 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
To rely on our limited senses and mind and intellect to try to figure things out, when everything is already discovered for us. The Vedic wisdom has every science and philosophy already all figured out for us. But because of false ego man wants to try to discover things and figure things out. So God says knock yourself out. And they do, unnecessarily. The most intelligent person accepts things from the highest authority Also known as God or Krishna and in this way overpasses all mental speculation and wasting time. if they would just accept the authority of Bhagavad Gita (Krishna) then all things can be understood. Make sure you read the authorized version translated By Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada (As it is) because it has no mental speculation only the Absolute Truth. Thanks.
2007-09-29 08:11:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Regarding any discipline, errors happen when we do not have a multi-dimentional view of the problem. Same thing holds for philosophy.
2007-09-29 03:05:18 · answer #4 · answered by I'm nobody! 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are just posing question that even you could not understand what you were asking. The greatest error in Philosophy, is when you ask senseless question. Your question is one of the errors.
2007-09-29 02:20:49 · answer #5 · answered by BONG C 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Fear because it knows no limits.
The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative.
2007-09-29 14:30:08 · answer #6 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋