Thursday, January 19, 2012

The Philosophy Toolkit

Having just read through the various sections of the philosophy toolkit on the DKJ blog, I must say, the thing that I found the most interesting was the declaration of the seven Intellectual Virtues of the highly reasonable thinker. It seems that these were very wise things to have chosen for this category, specifically on the front of the three forms of intellectual responsibility. These are listed as Intellectual: Honesty, Humility, and Courage, and when it really comes down to it, I think that these are potentially the three most important things on this list. To hone in on what I mean, the other four primary pieces of this equation seem to focus primarily on the general respect of all information that surrounds the self. However, when analyzing the three aforementioned intellectual responsibilities, these are the things that make up the receptive rules of the knowledge that we must collect to ascertain our reality; and this tribunal covers exactly the most important parts when doing such. Thus, this is the thing that I wanted to discuss, for I find it to be very true and very useful to consider when in a phiosophy class.

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