O.G. Rose | Milton's Areopagitica, Loncar's Kuhn, Ebert's Saturation, and Galileo's Mentidivergence by O.G. Rose @O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel | Uploaded January 2024 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
According to Jonathan Rauch, "free speech" is necessary for knowledge acquisition in a society, which is to say that giving it up will cause social regression. All of this fits into the context of Belonging Again exploring why it is so easy to opposes "social processes" that the society requires to function. Indeed, all values feel like they should just "be," and debate is a "process" which values will naturally oppose in their very being. And yet without "processing," we cannot know which values we should exercise and which are actually just "good intentions" which will cause a vast and dangerous "fall." In the name of values, in opposing expression, we can destroy the possibility of living them in an order that doesn't disorder the good...
To conclude our overall consideration of “free speech”...we will consider the work of Thomas Kuhn, who Samuel Loncar at Becoming Human has done tremendous work expounding on and explaining. Why? “The logic of scientific discovery” parallels “the logic of Rhetorical advancement,” which suggests that “scientific process” and “free speech” also align. Samuel brings to our attention the problem of “novelty in science,” which is a problem because science is seemingly threatened by novelty: if something new is discovered, it would suggest past science was wrong, so why should we ever trust it again? For Kuhn, the key is that we consider the whole “situation” of science (alluding to Leibniz), not just individual scientists, and that we see the authority of reliability of science precisely in its character as “a self-correcting community.” There are indeed great scientists who make great advancements in the field, but “the glory of science” is ultimately found in considering science as a “communal whole. Likewise, though there are great orators and great examples of human expression, “the glory of free speech” is ultimately found in considering speaking as “a communal whole.” “Free speech” is not so much about “individual expression” as it is “communal learning”...
For the full essay, please visit:
ogrose.substack.com/p/miltons-areopagitica-loncars-kuhn
Medium:
o-g-rose-writing.medium.com/miltons-areopagitica-loncar-s-kuhn-ebert-s-saturation-and-galileo-s-negentropic-3366cdd2ed87
For more by O.G. Rose:
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According to Jonathan Rauch, "free speech" is necessary for knowledge acquisition in a society, which is to say that giving it up will cause social regression. All of this fits into the context of Belonging Again exploring why it is so easy to opposes "social processes" that the society requires to function. Indeed, all values feel like they should just "be," and debate is a "process" which values will naturally oppose in their very being. And yet without "processing," we cannot know which values we should exercise and which are actually just "good intentions" which will cause a vast and dangerous "fall." In the name of values, in opposing expression, we can destroy the possibility of living them in an order that doesn't disorder the good...
To conclude our overall consideration of “free speech”...we will consider the work of Thomas Kuhn, who Samuel Loncar at Becoming Human has done tremendous work expounding on and explaining. Why? “The logic of scientific discovery” parallels “the logic of Rhetorical advancement,” which suggests that “scientific process” and “free speech” also align. Samuel brings to our attention the problem of “novelty in science,” which is a problem because science is seemingly threatened by novelty: if something new is discovered, it would suggest past science was wrong, so why should we ever trust it again? For Kuhn, the key is that we consider the whole “situation” of science (alluding to Leibniz), not just individual scientists, and that we see the authority of reliability of science precisely in its character as “a self-correcting community.” There are indeed great scientists who make great advancements in the field, but “the glory of science” is ultimately found in considering science as a “communal whole. Likewise, though there are great orators and great examples of human expression, “the glory of free speech” is ultimately found in considering speaking as “a communal whole.” “Free speech” is not so much about “individual expression” as it is “communal learning”...
For the full essay, please visit:
ogrose.substack.com/p/miltons-areopagitica-loncars-kuhn
Medium:
o-g-rose-writing.medium.com/miltons-areopagitica-loncar-s-kuhn-ebert-s-saturation-and-galileo-s-negentropic-3366cdd2ed87
For more by O.G. Rose:
ogrose.com
Photo by Simon Berger
