The art of thinking well: Thinking well is a means of knowing the truth: Volume 1 - Softcover

Balmes, Jaime

9781449957001: The art of thinking well: Thinking well is a means of knowing the truth: Volume 1

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ISBN 10: 1449957005 ISBN 13: 9781449957001

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2009

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To think well consists simply, either in knowing the truth, or in guiding the understanding in the way which leads to it. Truth is the reality of things. What is the use of thinking with acuteness, or with apparent profoundness, if our thoughts are not in conformity with the reality? A simple farmer, or a modest artisan, acquainted with the things connected with his business, will think and speak better about them than a presumptuous philosopher, who in laboured conceptions and high-sounding words might try to read them lectures on what he knows nothing about.

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Jaime Balmes (1810 - 1848), was a political writer and a philosopher. Balmes has a universally admitted place of honour amongst the greatest philosophers of modern times and his work sounds surprisingly relevant today.

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