--- cornel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Elizabeth > Mario's "rock solid moral compass" is based on a > simpleton's religious oriented commonsense. > Mario observes: > The comment above is an excellent example of an individual unorganized atheist who claims to be a "secular humanist", whom we have already seen in practice excludes millions of oppressed and downtrodden from concern for a variety of "sophisticated" reasons. In my opinion, this is an elitist and patronizing attitude towards morality and common sense which may lead to all kinds of self-serving exceptions to whatever rules are adopted regarding morality as well as common sense. > Nothing can ever be rock-solid in such thinking, because, in words made infamous by Bill Clinton, "It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is". > Cornel writes: > > Higher education is basically about debunking > commonsense and being touched by thought and > awareness. Some however, do go through higher > education without being touched by it. But there are > insightful individuals who have not been near any > higher education and yet developed much depth of > understanding of the human condition. > Mario observes: > Higher education should not start with the goal of debunking anything. Rather it should be a search for true knowledge and insight into the world around us and its people, and if something gets debunked along the way, then so be it. > The fact that there are uneducated individuals who have developed depth and understanding and educated individuals who have not, shows the inconsistency that in inherently a part of the human condition, which is why the accumulated wisdom of ages of real-world experience comes into play, as well as the checks and balances and consequences inherent in membership in a support group dedicated to morality. >
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