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| Nov 27, 2009 6:03 pm |
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re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Political Labels: Are they meaningful - Or are they just political swear |
Thomas Holford
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John Stephen Veitch sayeth:
> Hello Lamar
> It's not hard from your many posts to understand that you support the Republican Party. (Although give that the Republican Party have all but destroyed the USA, it's hard to imagine why you still feel that way.)
John! John! John!
This illustrates PERFECTLY the differing perspectives between a Sophist and a person with a Socratic perspective.
The Sophist lives inside of his or her own head, and believes that his or her perceptions define "reality".
"It's hard to imagine why you still feel that way."
The Sophist, in fact, CAN'T imagine why anyone else feels anything about anything, because anyone and everyone else are mere images inside the Sophist's skull.
A Socratic, in contrast, would engage in dialogue with others in the world of external reality and ask questions to discover "truth":
"What is a Republican"? "What do Republicans believe"? "Why do they believe it"? "What do Republicans accept as "true"? "What do Republicans regard as "virtue"?
etc., etc.
Political labels may or may not be meaningful. Sophists invest enormous energy in "making the weak argument appear stonger" and one of the Sophists techniques is to undermine and distort the meaning of words and labels.
In contrast, basic philosophical concepts and elemental language may be our best hope of achieving a "meaningful" understanding of reality and society.
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