Paul Feyerabend has experienced a constant evolution of his thinking throughout his life, went through popppal thought, anti-rationalist, empiricist, anti-respite, antipoeta and relativist, all of which has made his sentences unreleased. Wealth.
In addition, we are talking about one of the authors of the thesis of immeasurability. In this sense, all his critical theories are summarized in one of the phrases with which “Everything is valid” is most identified.
- “Teachers who use assessments and fear of failure shape young people’s brains until they lose all imagination they can have.
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This first sentence of Paul Feyerabend refers to the education system of his day, which remains in force at least in part, a qualification system that qualifies a student as more or less intelligent or more or less hardworking.
In reality, intelligence and effort are just two of the many variables that influence this assessment.
In addition, there is no place for creativity, only for memorization, the rush to transmit the whole curriculum makes teachers forget the most important thing: the construction of knowledge by students.
“We need a dream world to discover the characteristics of the real world in which we believe we live. “
This is one of the criticisms in which Paul Feyerabend alludes to how our thinking or the way we interpret the world ends up generating our own world.
That is, it is a conception of the environment with which we are actually working, so, for example, everyone can give a different account of the same facts.
What invites us to create is a dream world?Or, what is the same, a world full of possibilities in which we are aware that we can challenge our own reality, the vision through the other eyes changes it radically.
“If you want to accomplish something, if you want to write a book, paint an image, make sure that the center of your existence is elsewhere and that you are firmly connected to the earth. In this way, you will be able to stay Calm and laugh at the attacks that are coming ?.
This third sentence of Paul Feyerabend speaks of something as important as being in contact with the environment, with what our senses can grasp, starting with the internal signals sent to us by our own body.
With this we will gain a position that will make us much stronger in the face of difficulties.
For example, we will be able to understand how many people are not lost when they are victims of the fierce persecution of others.
In this way, the value of comments is infinite, because if you get carried away by these criticisms, you can stop doing what you love so much.
“The only principle that does not impede progress is: is everything worth it?
It is one of Paul Feyerabend’s phrases that sums up all his critical theories, so much so that he considered it a basic principle, meaning that, in principle, all options are valid, not that an option is potentially acceptable.
This makes a lot of sense, because if it’s all worth it, there are a lot of options, that’s not limiting, it’s quite the opposite. It leads us to consider a range of possibilities that may or may not be appropriate in the future.
“My intention is not to replace a general rule set with a similar set. On the contrary, my intention is to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.
This last sentence by Paul Feyerabend refers to the limitations that exist in all methodologies, however obvious or true they may seem, in the end, when it comes to a human product, they can always be improved.
We believe that today theories and methodologies continue to emerge that improve or raise doubts about others that we consider sound.
All these sentences of Paul Feyerabend allowed us to discover his most critical part, because the evolution of thought he lived led him to almost total questioning. It’s very positive.
Discussing, objecting and thinking about other possibilities enriches us much more than if we believe that something is right and do not think of other options.