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From the UK, philosopher Jonathan R¨¦e
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The curious history of freethinking
My minders at the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ would like me to make my posts a bit snappier and whackier ¨C a bit more bloglike in short. I shall do my best, but I'm afraid I may not succeed. After all they have also tagged me as ¡®philosopher¡¯, which implies taking care to look at everything in the round. And that takes time. If it¡¯s not the way things work in the blogosphere, then something will have to give.
That is why I have been insisting on the difference between holding an opinion and thinking things through. Comments on this distinction are still coming in (very interesting too), and I shall return to it, as incisively as possible, in a later post.But first I need to discharge an old promise by explaining a little of the history ¡®freethinking¡¯, and the part Bishop Berkeley played in its downfall. If I¡¯m right, the story points to a paradox in the idea of freethinking ¨C a paradox that has not lost its capacity to trip people up.
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