Altruistic intellectualism, Points to ponder, Fallacies

Altruistic intellectualism, Points to ponder, Fallacies 

By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Conceived and worded by DR Sohail Ansari (originality of concepts and originality of words).

He believes that there can never be a zero scope for improvement and appreciates criticism if it is not for the sake of criticism.

·      The cleverest ruler is most flexible in granting reforms and concessions.

·      Any judgment on thought is unjustified and uninformed if it is without examining its assumption.

·      The materialist interpretation of history (Marxism) is not the ‘general doctrine undeniable’; it is the doctrine that denies that animals’ desires are not the only desires.    

Altruistic intellectualism  

·        Altruistic behavior is caring about the needs and happiness of other people more than one’s own; altruism is however much easier to adopt than intellectual altruism because praise is always bestowed on altruist, he is always labeled as kind and caring. Altruist intellectual permits the incorporation of his writing in the evolution of doctrine without the acknowledgment of the source. This is the self effacement, selfless love for orthodoxy that permits its projection and growth at the expense of one’s own projection.    

Points to ponder 

o   I have always been unorthodox in a sense that I always have the vague apprehensions regarding the talks I hear from philosophers of ‘enlightened west’ about freedom, equality, justice and love for mankind; but the attack on Iraq and Afghanistan made me adequate unorthodox; unorthodox enough to perceive that European science and technology, liberalism and secularism were a superficial veneer, behind which lurked archaic prejudice and anti-Islamic ways of social ideas and institutions. This is the peculiar combination; pre-scientific modes of thinking and living that made two poor Islamic countries the target of scientific technology.

o   Monopoly of resources as economists tell us creates haves; but the analysis of the impact of monopoly on human nature helps us understand that how human becomes a ruthless god.

o   I am comfortable with the people those had a strict adherence to one philosophy and then moved toward another one when they mellowed. I do not like the attitude of moving philosophy to oneself; I mean turning it to oneself, recreating it so that version of one’s choice can serve the new found orientations to life.

o   Laski says ‘there is no justification for the resort to violence until the resources of reason have been exhausted’ there is the justification when people bent on injustice turn a deaf ear to reasons.  

Fallacies 

·        The unusual balance of judgment is the imbalance of judgment.

·        The unusual imbalance of judgment is the balance of judgment.