Re: [escepticos] Bertrand Russell: 'Decalogo liberal'

[José Velásquez <a880201n@...>]

   Hola Felix.

   Felix Moreno escribio:

> Quería pedirles un favor. En un libro que leí citaban el "decálogo 
> liberal" de Bertrand Russell, "con sus diez principios de honradez
> intelectual y salud mental", que falta me hace :-) 
> 
> He buscado este decálogo en varios de los libros de Russell, pero 
> no he tenido éxito. ¿Alguno de ustedes sabría en qué libro podría
> encontrarlo?

   Esta en "The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell" 1944-1969, pp. 71-2 y 
tambien lo puedes encontrar en:

http://daniel.drew.edu/~jlenz/decalog.html

   Es el siguiente:

 "Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new
decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but
only to supplement it. The Ten Commandments that, as a teacher, I should
wish to promulgate, might be set forth as follows:

1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.

2. Do not think it worth while to proceed by concealing evidence, for the
evidence is sure to come to light.

3. Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.

4. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband
or your children, endeavor to overcome it by
argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is
unreal and illusory.

5. Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always
contrary authorities to be found.

6. Do not use power to suppress opinions you think pernicious, for if you
do the opinions will suppress you.

7. Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted
was once eccentric.

8. Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement,
for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former
implies a deeper agreement than the latter.

9. Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is
more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.

10. Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's
paradise, for only a fool will think that it is happiness."
  
   Saludos.

   Jose.