It’s been a while since my last blog update. Up till May, I was publishing notes on books I’d read. The trouble is, I’ve been relying on audiobooks since March, so there’s less note-taking involved.
I’m looking to blog more, not just about specific books but things that usually eat me up inside for lack of expression, involving current events. So, please check this space out regularly once more.
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But almost nobody believes in unlimited relativism of ideas and values.
Much of the phenomena we observe is not purposely created by a person. In addition, no one person is capable of knowing all there is to know about any issue, hence the value of outside perspectives. The origin of much of our conflicting views is in the belief that any one belief is the ‘objective’ one, where everything is settled.
Even when another person is obviously wrong to us, their method of knowing what they believe to know could be instructive in our methods of knowing, our means of argumentation.
If anything’s wrong with the world, it’s in not recognizing that others have a point, even when they don’t express themselves that well.
Update: I discuss the matter further in my book How to get good, the section ‘How to think critically.’ The required openness to other points of view is shown by curiosity and a willingness to be wrong. I say it much better in the book.
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