My reactions:
- "Well put Toyin but..."
"When we underplay the conditions through which good ideas emerge and grow we make some huge mistake I think. French philosopher Renes Descartes probably meant this when he chose to live the life he called "the life of the mind". Call it whatever but when a thinker functions in a considerable challenging environment it is laughable to dream of a Nobel prize- assuming that this should be considered the greatest way to measure intellectual achievement!
I think there is something that is taken for granted in the birth and generation of good ideas here- it the kind of social organization/society where a thinker functions. Most human interactions constitutes or should lead to thought/research - but what manner or quality of thought can emerge from a significantly violent society- where through words, actions- the intellectual would encounter more things that would distort thought and are considerably violent to the mind than those that can advance and develop thought?
"Just a question and a thought!"
Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi,Ph.D
Professor of Philosophy
UNIABUJA
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