Doing the (Intellectual) Work | Episode XXVIII
New Humanists
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What Is the Signals of One Mind Making Contact With the Other?
What produces knowledge is not the system of signs put before us, but it is the work of our own reason on those signs. My explanations and my stick figures can facilitate it. But atat the end of the day, it needs to be your own mind the dus the work self apprehending, and then we get knowledge. The mind is enlightened only by its own light. A book is a signal, a stimulant, a helper, an initiator. It is not a substitute, and it is not a chain. Reading can only serve to stimulate us, to enrich our personality, not our pages. Books ar portals.
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