Re: Gross National Happiness

On Mar 10, 9:57 pm, "John Brockbank" <wag...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


'What outside world?' That is the question which fairly dim ten year olds
ask when they first hear of philosophy.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.

The outside world is what we evolved in. If Kant's main points were not
headed by that at #1, he needed a few science lessons.

A rather anachronistic point, I think.

You might know nothing except what you experience but do not make the
mistake of thinking that it applies to everyone.

Why not? Surely we can make the reasonable assumption that other
people are much the same as we are - what evidence do we have that
this is not the case?

If there are supermen who know more than is available to them through
experience, then we ought to know who they are and have evidence that
their extra-sensory perceptions are valid and useful.

We do know that many nutters believe that they have knowledge beyond
their experience - it's almost a rite of passage in becoming a nutter.
If there are non-nutters with this knowledge, then how could we tell?



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