Channel: Freedom in Thought

Category: Education

Description: The next 1,000 visitors to shortform.com/freedominthought will receive unlimited access for 5 days and a discounted annual subscription. ABOUT _ In this video, I talk about Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, self-deception, knowledge, truth, and not lying to yourself. If truth is the actual way to our destination, knowledge is the map that we have. And when the map gets us to our destination, we say that knowledge is true. But knowledge is never truth, and to confuse the two is to confuse the map for the territory, the directions for the actual way, what was for what is, and to close oneself off to all learning. Mistaking knowledge for truth is the root of all self-deception. But a mind that separates these two things, that realizes that knowledge is never truth, that the map is never the territory, always remains open to change, to testing, to learning, to updating its map in accordance with the territory, and because of that, it will never deceive itself. RELATED VIDEOS _ Practical Philosophy Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5faAYlGYYoF7rgKH4oo_B81n4wE1n2xP GET MORE FREE CONTENT — Twitter: twitter.com/freedomintht Instagram: instagram.com/freedomintht Website: freedominthought.com FURTHER READING — The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky: geni.us/Yktpy NOTES — (1) Videos are just my opinion, for entertainment and informational purposes. Just some things to think about—not advice. (2) Some of the links in the description are affiliate links which I get a kickback from—at no extra cost to you. Eg - any Amazon links.