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Is knowledge derived solely from reasoning about something as an individual, as an articulated rationality, or is the systematic, institutional and traditional sources of knowledge like family, church, youth groups, military, civil service, government that represent non-individual collective knowledge?
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
Also implicit in the unconstrained vision is the view that the relevant comparison is between the beliefs of one sort of person and another - between x and y, rather than between (1) systemic processes working through successive generations of individuals a through x, as expressed through the living generation x, versus (2) the articulated rationality of y in isolation. The rejection of the concept of collective wisdom leaves individual comparisons as the standard of judgement. Since the experiences of a through w no longer count, the issue reduces to the articulated rationality of x versus that of y. Therefore, the unconstrained vision necessarily favors the "cultivated mind" y, while the constrained vision necessarily favors the views expressed through x, seen as representative of the unarticulated experience of many others (a through w). The two visions thus lead to opposite conclusions as to which opinion should prevail and why.
A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
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