Hi this is to Tutor Nick P and this is Quotes 168. The quote today is by Aristotle and of
course, remember he was a great Athenian philosopher who lived from 384 to 322 BC.
All right Athenian, of course, means you know, Athens. Athens Greece.
Okay. Let's directly take a look at this quote. "Be a free thinker and don't accept
everything you read as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in. " So this is Aristotle, way
back you know more than a couple thousand years ago, telling you that
well, fake news or that a lot of things that written down may not be really
correct of what you're reading. So be very, very careful. Let's continue. What
Aristotle is telling you is to be a free thinker. He is telling you to have an open mind and
think for yourself don't just listen and automatically believe others. You should
even question sources that some others tell you that you can trust. In our
modern times that would be like the mainstream media. The main news networks
or the main publications that have been famous for many many years. Even school
text books, etc. Sources that are supposed to have good reputations, you may find
out have been compromised at some point. Okay. Well it could have been when it was
first written, it may not have been completely true at that point or over
time sometimes if somebody doesn't like what's actually written in the history
books they may try to rewrite it. They may buy the rights of the publishing
companies and make subtle changes over time, over time, over time. To try to actually kind of twist or
rewrite history to those could be other ways as well. Let's continue.
Many people will often accept ideas just to not be
confrontational or just get along. Yeah. I know I've covered a lot of, you know articles
over the years and you can see that there's actually a lot of students that
automatically want to agree with what's written in the book. Well if somebody
wrote it in the book it must be correct. It must be true. Not
necessarily but there's a lot of students that are like that. They will
just by instinct think well it's written here so it must be correct. I'll go with
that. if your goal is the truth or real facts you must always question. He also
tells you to be critical. Aristotle tells you to be critical. You know. Judge it criticize it. See if it stands up to
criticism and evaluate what you believe in. He's telling you to do your own research.
Without this step, you will never be sure of the answer. So even if somebody is
telling you what's written is wrong. You should even double-check that. You should
check everything. Just, just so you know what the real answer is , and it's only
until you do your own research that you know you can start to get a grasp or you
know form what you believe is really the truth. Of course, make sure you don't go
back to the original source just to confirm it again. You have to check other
sources in order to make sure that what you're reading is correct. Let's continue.
Many fail at this point, out of laziness.. Yeah maybe.
Apathy maybe. They just don't care .Or fear. Sometimes it is fear too. Sometimes
people don't want to know that something that they believed and they thought for
their whole life or for a long time may not actually be what is correct. Let's
continue. Always question again and again until the picture becomes clearer well
the whole picture the whole situation and the answer
start to make sense. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. I hope was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.