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How can philosophy assist in decision-making in response to planetary crises—ecological, social, economic, and political? By helping to integrate scientific realism with spiritual idealism and helping to shape the debate: bringing high quality thinking to bear, well-informed and carefully reasoned; promoting the understanding of intellectual diversity; and pruning errors in reasoning.
I really enjoyed your talk on the role that philosophy can play in assisting us to solve our many sided problems. I think it would also be helpful if society made a sincere protracted effort to educate all of its citizens without the trappings of politics and religion. If this should happen, the society would be less prone to manipulation by groups who are in the pursuit of power and in the process of exclusion rather than inclusion.
By training the mind to be critical in its thinking, and basing its decisions upon the factual as well as tolerating the concept of truth alongside the factual, philosophy can provide a great service to the struggle to achieve human destiny.
Just as we are all of God’s children, we are also citizens of this world. Sooner or later, we must refrain from categorizing our citizens as “them and us.” A lot of the difficulty as I see it is because of the philosophy of exclusion rather than one of inclusion. And while we all have different opinions as to how to best proceed forward, we should always remember that we are all in this together.
A lot of the decisions that are being made are being made on the basis of exclusion rather than inclusion. No group has a monopoly on truth; they all have something constructive to add to the solution.
Dr. Perry
The Kent State University radio station, WKSU, has a motto: Report the facts; respect the truth.
I love the fact that the embrace of all people as family leaves open a great range of options regarding ecological, social, economic, and political questions. How we believe something is more important than what we believe. And if the how were uplifted, it would open up interest in listening and learning and some changes to the what along the way. This is true for us all.