Jewish philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar, Morris Raphael Cohen, and his thoughts on:
Critical Thinking:
The method of exposition which philosophers have adopted leads many to suppose that they are simply inquiries, that they have no interest in the conclusions at which they arrive, and that their primary concern is to follow their premises to their logical conclusions.
Liberalism
Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas – an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.
Being Scientific
To be sure, the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.
Religion
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
Philosophy, Literature and Science
Literature and philosophy both allow past idols to be resurrected with a frequency which would be truly distressing to a sober scientist.
In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.
Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.
Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.
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According to Edgar Cayce’ prediction “sound is the medicine for the 21st century”. His prediction is proven correct; one of the amazing findings of the 21st century is classical music.
There are increasing numbers of experts that testify the surprising benefits of classical music:
1. February 2005 (Journal of Advance nursing):
Found that older adults with sleep problems who listened for about 45 minutes to soft music at bedtime reported 35% improvement in their sleep.
Classical music is proven therapeutic to a lot of illness such as old age related conditions (like alzheimer), Brain injury, acute pain including mothers in labor, and physical disabilities. That is why in US classical music is played in psychiatric hospitals and rehabilitation centers.
One hospital study found that heart patients received the same anxiety benefits from listening to 30 minutes classical music as they did from taking drug valium.
2. 2004 (London, England)
British Transport police play classical music to underground stations in some of the areas most dangerous neighborhoods. After 6 months of playing the music,
Robberies were cut by 33% , Staff assaults decreased by 25%, vandalism went down to 37%
3. 2001 (West Palm beach, Florida)
“It’s not practical to have a cop sitting there all day long”
“So what do we you do?”
“How do you change the scope of the neighborhood ”
Cops installed a CD player and speakers on an abandoned building in a crime- ridden neighborhood. After playing the music for 24 hours a day for about 3 months, Shootings, theft, loiterers and drug deal decreased.
4. Some supermarkets and stores in the US piped in music in their place. According to them classical music tend to put shoppers at ease, relax and look at the items for sale.
5. In the office classical music is used to reduce mood disturbance and job burnout.
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“Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability.”
Love this quote!