Paradigm

Can I disconnect my self from paradigm?

One silent evening I met Gadamer in the hallway and I asked him this question because I was confused about what was going on in our country. Could it be that all my knowledge about the political crisis were just my own personal convictions? He looked straight into my eyes and uttered these words and left: How many times do I have to say this that knowledge is justified true belief. I was left dumbfounded and made me think on my own. It is true that what we know we take it as our own and it represents what is out there but we must rigorously search for the truth, for what is really there. Yes, we always see things base from our own perspective. We are bound by our world, condition and historicity. Gadamer called this prejudice. But prejudice can be enabling and at the same time disabling. Hope that I should not stop desiring to look for the truth given my own finitude and situatedness, in so doing, l will enable my self and others to go beyond, to transcend and see the vastness of the horizon.

AMDG
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