Pause a bit and check our emotions

“Real knowledge knows the extent of one's ignorance." — Confucius

I would venture to say that many, perhaps most of us working in the areas of Equality field of around age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religious belief, or Human Rights field, Informal Logic and critical thinking like to think of the practice to which we are committed as progressive, as contributing to social betterment and intellectual advance.

We may prefer to imagine ourselves out toiling in those conceptual fields, boots immersed in the muddy waters, planting and grafting as well as pruning and weeding, and perhaps even harvesting a crop from time to time. I suspect that most of us, whatever our political stripe, would resist the idea that we are confined by the very nature of our disciplinary practice, to simply uphold and perhaps rearrange the status quo, either intellectually or politically.

My view of the matter, for what it is worth, is that there is no such thing as a logical method of having new ideas, or a logical reconstruction of Equality process. My view may be expressed by saying that every discovery around equality contains ‘an unfounded element’, or ‘a creative insight in the process.

As the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once put it: "The paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling."

·       What do you find inconsistent in your life and the activities around Equality issues?

·       What paradoxes can you share?

·       What do you think?

·       Does it matter?