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What is ignorance admission?
“It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.”
How can ignorance be overcome?
Educate rather than criticize. If someone is uninformed about a particular topic, respectfully listen to their opinions and respond with a counter-argument. If your immediate reaction to ignorance is to criticize, yell, or interrupt, the person will not listen to what you have to say.
Why is admission of one’s ignorance important?
3) It is sometimes said that the admission of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom because once you are aware you are ignorant, you accept the fact that you don’t know everything and want to change that. He is being wise to defend himself because he knows it is unjust.
Do you believe in the statement that ignorance is the beginning of wisdom?
Benjamin Franklin once remarked that the beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of your own ignorance. This is no longer true. Nowadays, the knowledge of your own ignorance is the beginning of a race towards a computer with Internet access.
What is the root cause of ignorance?
It is the root cause of Dukkha (suffering, pain, unsatisfactoriness), and asserted as the first link, in Buddhist phenomenology, of a process that leads to repeated birth….Avidyā (Buddhism)
| Translations of avidyā | |
|---|---|
| English | ignorance, misconceptions |
| Sanskrit | avidyā (Dev: अविद्या) |
| Pali | avijjā (Dev: अविज्जा) |
| Burmese | အဝိဇ္ဇာ (MLCTS: əweɪʔzà) |
How does ignorance affect responsibility?
Ignorance affects obligation according to the Prospective View, too; on this view, however, it is not one’s beliefs but one’s evidence that determines what one ought morally to do, and if one’s evidence parts company either with the relevant facts or with one’s beliefs about the facts, then, once again, so much the …
What is the moral principles of ignorance?
The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision making by denying decision makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or least from the available options.