Monday, October 22, 2007

Jean-François Lyotard: Introduction to The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge

"...the hero of knowledge works toward a good ethico-political end -- universal peace."

To use your greater knowledge for the good of mind kind. It all sounds so much like a Miss America Pageant. It does make sense, but only to a point. In which that point is meant to use your knowledge for good, not evil, but not in the sense that you should use your knowledge to make the world a better place, that just ain't gonna happen.

Philosophy on the other hand, is more like a personal thing. We all have our own different philosophical views. Granted, many of ours are similar, but none are identical. We make think that our philosophical views are identical, but that's just for those of us who are too afraid to speak up.

But on the whole, knowledge is a good thing to possess. We don’t all want to be stupid about stuff. Which is weird that the research mentioned in this article was about where the most educated people are, and how they happened to be “in the most highly developed societies”. Which would make sense that nations such as England, France, Germany, China and America possess smart people, but these people, in America at least, aren’t as smart as they appear to be. But that’s just my opinion. And if you take into account that a lot of the people who are smart came from areas where the people they were around were not, and were able to climb up the social ladder.

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