Being open to new ideas is a key way to expand your horizons and promote broad-mindedness in expansive ideologies. If anything, to live closed-minded is a terrible waste of the human experience. The only way to cultivate new, innovative ideas is to expose yourself to any and all possibilities that may exist in the realm of reality. Many advancements in science, technology and education stem from scholars branching out their ideas to functions of the unreasonable and downright questionable to sanity. Heraclitus, an intellectually beautiful Greek philosopher, once said, “To be even minded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.” Heraclitus taught the expressions of universal flux; Life and ideas …show more content…
One must be willing to set aside their pride and insecurities to recognize the benefits of being wrong. To be wrong in concept or in idea is the first step in expanding your knowledge in the given area. We, as a society, have come to the acceptable notion that we are fallible as a whole, but when it comes down to the individual itself, the appreciation of this notion becomes null very quickly. People do not feel wrong in the present tense as being wrong feels exactly like being right within the moment. The concept of being okay with admitting and recognizing your mistakes alleviates stress on your fortitude. In the end, being right misses the entire point of being human, we are an ever-evolving species, and therefore, our assumptions need to reflect this approach as well. Society as an individual needs to accept the possibility of being wrong as it will ultimately help on their path to …show more content…
Only in the unknown can we truly expand our knowledge, which is vital to expand your horizons in personal beliefs. This is quite an obviously ambiguous statement, but in the long run, the logic applies all the same. The idea of trying something new before you make assumption is the only way to divulge into the unknown. For instance, someone might be afraid of joining a new gym because all the employees and guests look too intimidating. However, if they are pushed into joining and finally commit, they might realize that all the patrons and trainers are actually supportive and insist on helping the individual achieve their goals. Simply put, you will never know how something is going to turn out unless you
Socrates put one’s quest for wisdom and the instruction of others above everything else in life. A simple man both in the way he talked and the wealth he owned, he believed that simplicity in whatever one did was the best way of acquiring knowledge and passing it unto others. He is famous for saying that “the unexplained life is not worth living.” He endeavored therefore to break down the arguments of those who talked with a flowery language and boasted of being experts in given subjects (Rhees 30). His aim was to show that the person making a claim on wisdom and knowledge was in fact a confused one whose clarity about a given subject was far from what they claimed. Socrates, in all his simplicity never advanced any theories of his own but rather aimed at bringing out the worst in his interlocutors.
This suggests that to gain knowledge, one must be open-minded to new topics and ideas that another might have to expand
...Greeks, for their part, considered wisdom a virtue, but their conception of wisdom always contained a conventional, conservative element. ..."Wisdom" is not the term one would use to describe a scientific genius, a brilliant artist, an innovator in any field. But these, for Rand, are the highest exemplars of rationality.
Being confident, but not certain, allows for changes in opinion/belief in the face of new information and experiences (avoiding Unger’s attitude of certainty).
Solomon vs. Socrates: what they thought wisdom was, where it came from, and how it was taught.
“To accept anything as true means to incur the risk of error. If I limit myself to knowledge that I consider true beyond doubt, I minimize the risk of error, but at the same time I maximize the risk of missing out on what may be the subtlest, most important, and most rewarding things in life”. That was on page three of E.F. Schumacher’s A Guide for the Perplexed. It was included on the third page on the text because it is one of the most important reoccurring themes throughout the book.
The Delphic oracle told to his friend Chaerephon that Socrates is the wisest man on earth. However, he did not think in that way and tried to prove that the oracle had not right. When he started to talk with people it turned out that the politicians are arrogant and not so clever, poets do not understand their own work, manual artisans considered themselves to be so smart in all areas, however, they know only their craftsmanship. When Socrates showed their ignorance, he became hated. Although he only wanted to prove that human wisdom is not so important and has not the biggest value in life. Moreover, he was just about to show that real wisdom belongs only to the gods. Socrates wisdom consisted in realizing his ignorance. Other people did not confess to their ignorance, they thought that they know everything. Socrates was aware of that he can do not know something, compared to others. And for him it was natural, when other people did not want to confess to their
In modern society, wisdom can be defined as the quality of having experience, knowledge, and moral judgment; the quality of being wise. However, Socrates had the idea that wisdom was knowing oneself. Socrates’s was beyond brilliant compared to the average Athenian; he was self-aware and just. Although Socrates tended to meddle in the affairs of others, he consequently had the ability to spark enlightenment among the people in Athens. To Socrates, philosophy served as the study of humans. He highlights this in The Apology when he goes from one social group to the next in search for the wisest of all the land. This is of course in response to the Oracle of Delphi addressing the fact that Socrates presents himself as the wisest of the entire known world. This was dangerous since Socrates dared to challenge the Oracle by trying to demonstrate he was not the wisest. Through this, however, Socrates learns that he was the wisest because he could admit that he did not have knowledge in all subjects; he could explicitly declare that he has not achieved ultimate knowledge of everything, unlike most Athenians.
Throughout history, people struggled to understand the world and obtain knowledge through questioning, and experiments. And, there were many cases when people reviewed the same facts, and did not come up with the same opinions and hence derived different conclusions. Therefore, conflicts occurred and some facts were not accepted by all people. For example, there are multiple debates on whether ‘the first Moon landing event’ actually took place or not. Though this event had a lot of support, the arguments by the skeptics could not be ignored. Some people questioned the video footage a...
...rom our original anchor points or beliefs, so we assume that it is not correct, and continue believing the way we did before.
We do not know what is right until we learn alternative sources and develop an opinion on life. Through growing up, our family, education and experiences work to persuade our opinions and alter our perception in everything we do. Our perception can be changed through life as we grow, learn new ideas and gain new experiences, but through the duration of our childhood, our perception is molded into an everlasting building block for our future.
We live in a world full of doubt and The Alchemist, a novel written by Paulo Coelho, surely grasps that concept. This is what human nature is to be cautious around the unknown and to not trust until the trust is earned, at least that is what I believe in.
There is a complex process through which a person acquires knowledge, and it depends on the mental capacity of a person as to how much knowledge he can acquire. In Plato’s Republic, we can see what knowledge does for the man in the allegory of the cave. In this story, knowledge was acquired by experience. In Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics, we learn what the ultimate intellectual virtues are and that wisdom is the highest of all. Knowledge from Plato and wisdom from Aristotle can be connected through the achievement of intellect.
Everybody would be expected to think repetitively. Healthy conflict pushes away from the norm and sometimes it's needed just to break up the monotony of that continuous flow of mediocrity. Most of the time the social think tank is right but it doesnt mean that a contrary point of view is wrong. Most of the time my thought process is outside of the box and I love that because it gives me the opportunity to be the one to ask why. It also sometimes supports an easier, less strenuous way to get the desired result. I do understand that going against the grain isnt always ideal but it's needed every once in a while.
Oedipus is a man of great wit and cleverness. He has solved the riddle of the Sphinx and even Teresias says: "It’s in riddle answering you are strongest" (29). But Sophocles understands that it is better to be wise than to be clever, and that the one does ...