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Jul 16, 2023 · While ignorance may offer momentary bliss, it can also be a curse with profound consequences. Ignorance can perpetuate stereotypes, biases, and discrimination, fueling...
Jul 12, 2021 · Sunstein hopes we will learn more about when it is accurate to say that knowledge is power and ignorance is bliss.
Oct 5, 2020 · We all know the proverb which goes as ‘Ignorance is Bliss’ — which means if one is unaware of an unpleasant fact or situation one cannot be troubled by it. But this shows only one side of the...
- Radical Skepticism
- Is Everything Ultimately An opinion?
- The Consolation of Skepticism
As we’ve seen with Cynicism, Stoicism, and Epicureanism, Greek philosophy can all too often be misrepresented. Words like “cynical” and “skeptic” have mutated over the years to become entirely new beasts. To be skeptical, today, means to be doubtful. It’s to question, challenge, and be somewhat disbelieving of an idea or person. Yet in the ancient ...
Pyrrho himself took things a bit far. His students reportedly had to stop him from walking off deadly precipices or into busy streets because he said he couldn’t entirely trust his senses. So, it took a few centuries for Skepticism to develop, and it found its voice again in the Roman, Sextus Empiricus. Like Pyrrho, Sextus Empiricus didn’t place mu...
For Sextus and Pyhrro, recognizing the very clear limits to our understanding brings great benefit. With the revelation that there are some things — well, maybe a lot of things — that we can never know is deeply comforting. We can give up trying to dogmatically defend views that we have no way to know for sure are correct. We can stop getting so he...
Apr 4, 2022 · Some people prefer not to watch the news and remain ignorant of all horrible things going on in the world. So, is it true that ignorance is a bliss? Idiomatic phrases describing the blissful life of people who lack knowledge and realistic assessment of matters are popular in many cultures.
Sep 24, 2020 · Thomas Gray originated the saying in his poem “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College” (1742): “Where ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.” But is it?
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Oct 28, 2023 · The former, ignorance born of innocence, can indeed be bliss. Children, for example, often live in a state of blissful ignorance, sheltered from the complexities of adulthood. There’s...