Re: What is ignorance?
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Originally Posted by Lutiferre
Ignorance is lack of knowledge, and possibly also deliberately ignoring something due to arrogance.
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Do you think that people choose to be ignorant? I think I would consider that as hiding, deceiving and lying. Or maybe you are getting at another meaning of ignore here.
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Originally Posted by Der
I haven't voted yet but I will add this one: "Ignorance is not the inability to learn but the refusal to do so"
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Ignorance would then be a kind of laziness, such as cognitive lazyness? Or something otherwise motivated, for example by stubbornness?
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While the rest of mankind seeks for the sake of finding and of knowing, the Westerner of today seeks for the sake of seeking; the Gospel saying, 'Seek and ye shall find,' is a dead letter for him, in the full force of this phrase, since he calls 'death' anything and everything that constitutes a definite finality, just as he gives the name 'life' to what is no more than fruitless agitation.
René Guénon, East and West
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