Durant wrote:
>
> Thanks very much for the sumup.
> Just a couple of notes:
> - If someone writes beautifully that does not necessarily
> mean that his conclusions are right
> - if someone experienced things - same applies.
I agree 100%. Appeal to authority is anathema to
me as it was to Galileo and others.
On the other hand, I have personally known one person
(maybe a couple more...) in my life who was (still is:
he's not yet dead or confined to a lunatic asylum) a
MORAL GIANT. This man's presence was awesome, and
it became the more awe-inspiring the more I applied
my *critical judgment* to scrutinizing this person.
I think I have a fairly good "nose" for smelling
out pretenders-to-knowledge and their antipodal opposites.
I may be wrong about Szcsepanski, and I'll continue to
"test all things and hold fast only that which
proves good" [end of sentence]
>
> Otherwise you should all believe me straight away, as I am probably
> the only one on this list who lived and worked (as a blue-collar
> worker) for years, while bringing up a family
> under both the ex-socialist and the capitalist system...
>
> >From your description I cannot see how this "freedom of
> individuality" can be achieved without a democratically sharing.
> society.
Szczepanski was clearly advocating radical democracy
while writing from behind the Iron Curtain. He was
probably, at age 80(?), and a very careful craftsman
of his language, in a sufficiently secure position (and/or
had little enough to lose, and/or also was really trying
to *give* to humanity at whatever risk to himself...),
that he could afford to say these things (the speech
was originally given to a Conference in Paris).
If you find what I described not good, and if you read the
original article and find it not good, please share
with us, for I believe that is what JS himself would
have wanted us to do.
>
> Eva
[snip]
"Prove all things [for yourself!]; hold fast that
which is good [in your most responsible judgment --
and proclaim and defend your results before all
sapient spirits there may be]"
(1 Thes v:21 [ammended])
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