“The Red Wheelbarrow”

So much depends

upon

a red wheel 

barrow

glazed with rain

water

besides the white

chickens. 

     – Carlos Williams

Think for yourselves! Unless it involves what I have to say.

Think for yourselves! Unless it involves what I have to say.

“Tradition should positively be discouraged.”  – T.S. Eliot – “Traditions and the Individual Talent.”

“Tradition should positively be discouraged.”  – T.S. Eliot – “Traditions and the Individual Talent.”

General logic is constructed from understanding, judgement, and reason. Logic is what’s used to deal with concepts, judgement, and inferences.

Reasoning is something that extends to knowledge beyond possible experience, meaning you can reason something that is not in any way something you can experience.

Judgement is better at indicating the nature of the task. To find out how you end up making a choice.

Logic however doesn’t contain rules for judgement, logic just leads to knowledge as it is the connection for all the pieces of things you know in your head.

Judgement as it is an action can only be practiced and not taught, and poor judgement is what often leads to stupidity.

A narrow minded person although can teach themselves or be taught with alot of knowledge can still make very poor decisions, as their judgement is flawed. Its not hard to find people in this archetype.

Kant was only put under the scope of people because of this answer to what is enlightenment. Prior he already had his largest work of 800 pages being “Critique of Pure Reason”, I read pages 176-178 of this (random numbers I picked). It is extremely dense. However, due to it’s density I got a lot of info out of it.

This is almost word for word my journal entry in response to reading “What is Enlightenment” I feel that it conveys what I think pretty well.

It is very aggravating reading Kant, rather its really difficult just like any philosophical writing. I took philosophy and the readings for that class were probably the worst I’ve come across. Rarely is the language all that hard, but the thickness and density of the words is similar to that of a contract, or a bill passing through congress. If I do take my time to read through slowly, carefully, and analytically I do enjoy it. However reading philosophy is like the cream of the crap to me. In other words the best of the worst. 

To sum up Kant’s answer to What is Enlightenment, he claims that people need to let go of the clutches that society places on them, get out and innovate the current ideas, if not make new ones. Few people however can truly succeed this though, and upon success should make the change slow for fear it may change in a bad way fast. The biggest drive of enlightenment is freedom, and the main supplier of freedom should be the government. While the worst captor of enlightenment is religion.

Kant goes to say “man’s inclination and vocation to think freely—has developed within this hard shell” so I picture that the human inclination is like an egg. It constantly feeds on ideas of others (the yolk) and once it hatches, it needs freedom to express itself and grow. (space)