Philosophy Wire: The need for non-education…

What education should be like: A tech guru says that we should teach humans to not be machines. [1] He could be right. We like to teach people how to learn more. How to calculate faster. How to design algorithms better. How to memorize more. And even when students get out of the classroom, we teach them the same things again: How to run faster. How to jump higher. How to be stronger. A deep ancient thirst governs our life and ultimately leads to our death. We had that thirst from ever since we stopped being kids. And we will have it until we die. We cannot quench the thirst. Because it is not a thirst which can be quenched. It is not a thirst for something specific. It is thirst for MORE. And we will never be satisfied. Because we feed our need. In a world of One, we keep on finding more and more parts. Created by us in our quest for more. Stop we must. And think again that we think too much. Just breath. Until breathing has no meaning at all. We used to have nothing. But we never realized that this was everything. We must unlearn what we have learnt. Empty your cup. See? It is full now…

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Philosophy Wire: Stupid clever…

Before and after telling someone is beautiful [source]...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2016-12-16]: Edison was home schooled by his mother who was angered by his teachers who referred to the seven-year-old Thomas Alva Edison, as “addled”. [1] In a world of stupid people, being clever is stupid…

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Philosophy Wire: Stop everything. Be eternal…

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-09-01]:

To perceive time, the brain relies on internal clocks that precisely orchestrate movement, sensing, memories and learning. [1]

Stop moving. (Zenon)
Stop remembering. (Everything changes)
Stop sensing. (Only One exists, Pull off your eyes)
Stop Learning. (How do you know that you know?)

And you will be eternal…

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Philosophy Wire: Virtue. A matter of action. Not of science/ education/ art!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2015-05-11]: According to Rousseau science makes you less virtuous. Education in general makes people more hypocritical, more meretricious, decorating with flowers the chains that hold them. The more you analyze virtue the less you practice it. ("Discourse on the Arts and Sciences". [1]) Athens went down in history as the city of philosophers, but Sparta as the city of the practice of virtue. People always like to talk about virtue and ethics. Not exercise them. Christ who dared to live with virtue was expelled from the educated of His era. The most glorious scientific era of ancient Greece ended with the killing of its greatest philosopher. Our modern era of “scientific truth” doubts the very existence of foundations in ethics. Seek a fisherman. Stop looking at him disparagingly. Look at him like a teacher. And learn.

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Philosophy Wire: Educated. Uneducated. And why we need more of the latter...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2014-12-04]:

Educated people. Uneducated people. Who is to blame for the evils in this world?
Who has a greater share of responsibility for what is wrong in this world?

Some people claim that it is the uneducated people who are to be blamed. They do not make the right choices. They do not behave properly. They do not see the bad things happening in their world since they do not have the proper education to think of anything else than their own happiness in their own world. All in all, they do all kinds of bad things just because they are.. uneducated. Or so claim the educated.

But this is far away from the truth.

I wish every person thought only of his happiness in his own world as the uneducated people do. The leaders who have brought us to our current level of ethical demise were all educated.

As Rousseau said,
we need more uneducated people.
More good people.

Listen to Christ and His teachings.
Do not ask him about His diplomas...

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