Obstinacy and Discourse: Meditations On Being a Charitable Dogmatist
Aristotle wrote, “it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” When I think about this quote I imagine a soldier in war, walking through enemy territory naively smelling the flowers. Ideas are dangerous things and to entertain and constantly be around precarious things will ultimately lead to injury. That is, unless we are careful. These analogies of war and danger are an overstating but I...
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