Friday, 12 May 2023

Knowledge is always mediated. Immediate, direct experience tells us some things, but cannot access other knowledge, and sometimes obscures the bigger picture. For example, direct historical evidence from a soldier during a war is powerful, but tells us nothing of the wider war – the reasons, the politics, the campaign. It is impossible to understand any concept without going outside of it to the whole – every human action is social.

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How is that someone or many people can study (Hanna Arendt or Robert J Lifton or whoever) and then go right ahead and take part in exactly w...