From one perspective, one could see the entire western epistemological tradition as having been founded on nihilism: the story that Socrates was the wisest man in all Greece because he knew that he did not know. From this perspective, ignorance as a heuristic test of knowledge and a spur to dialectical investigation might be viewed as highly suspect, as being contrary to a vigorous and vital existence. Because we do know things. Our daily survival is living testament to our knowledge. So why affirm the opposite? Why, indeed, assume that life is elsewhere?
January 6, 2013 by m4u
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