Terrorism expert Lars Gule told the BBC that while there are `a lot of these ideas around´.There´s only the hope is that Mr Anders Behring Breivik was a `lone wolf when acting upon these ideas´.
There is no place in the university for problems of life, modern Platonic academy, from Icelandic philosopher Páll Skúlason says.
According to Skúlason scholarly detachment is a moral virtue that it can turn to the vice of indifference once the scholar ceases to think of himself as part of society and of his scholarship possessing social context.
Let us make a proposal for truth as a power and as its own power instead of correctness or fact or the result of investigation, prays British philosopher Philip Goodchild.
Truth as an attitude and a principle. This truth does not engage in particular projects or agendas; it defies no opponents and never exercises violence. Unlike the critical reason of philosophy (indifferent to problems of life obviously) it does not aim to undermine other truths or to master the future or representations.Accocding to Goodchild (fanny name, but it´s not a pen name) there will be the force of itself because its orientation is precisely a mode of orientation.
It is a knowledge before knowledge and not thereafter; it expresses actual problems so that one might begin to think, it demands investment in experience and adapts imagination to experience rather than to concept.
Its true power is nothing but awareness, he adds.
In the old sense, authority had been since times immemorial (by both Plato) the guarantor of truth, today however, we do not have to ask the question of what authority is but rather like Arendt did, of what authority was! We can no longer fall upon old experiences common to all and the gravity of the demands of peoples all over the world express this faithfully.
The old canons of state, capital, media and government must be replaced by new ones and this is nothing but a very slow process, however it must begin at the beginning – not with yet another re-enacting of perfunctorily established zombi-institutions such as the university and the government.
Post sciptum
We do not need graduated Freemasons like Mr Anders Behring Breivik. Many from my generation, rockers, has gone to be a Mason. They have identified themselves with establishment.
pity.
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