DReaver13
18th August 2004, 19:47
Objectivism sees the individual as shaping their own mind through reason and perception, grasping reality and finding out the facts of this reality. They do not accept that people should listen blindly to the judgements and thoughts of others without fully reasoning it out fro themselves.
However, doesn't this strike you as impossible? We simply cannot perform every scientific experiment known to man during our lifetimes. We depend on the ideas and conclusions of those who came before us. We rely on teachers to teach us these facts of reality. Almost our entire mind is made up of fragments of ideas from other people both alive, and long dead. Sure we think through some of it, but a lot of it we just accept.
What do you think? Are we the product of millions of thoughts and ideas from the outside world and our fellow members of human kind? Or are we the result of completely independent thought? Or a mix of the two?
However, doesn't this strike you as impossible? We simply cannot perform every scientific experiment known to man during our lifetimes. We depend on the ideas and conclusions of those who came before us. We rely on teachers to teach us these facts of reality. Almost our entire mind is made up of fragments of ideas from other people both alive, and long dead. Sure we think through some of it, but a lot of it we just accept.
What do you think? Are we the product of millions of thoughts and ideas from the outside world and our fellow members of human kind? Or are we the result of completely independent thought? Or a mix of the two?