2010-12-20, 05:40 PM
You don't have to claim intellectualism to be intellectual. Intellectualism is designed to simply do what it does... raise questions, inspire thinking, and broaden a view point.
Swerve by stating what you did, you did exactly that. You questioned yourself. You saw a need for self advancement, critical thinking, wanting to understand what you do not, and even asked a question.
Intellectualism isn't also about tearing down a view point and trying to simplify it by breaking it down and pointing out it's flaws. Intellectualism takes the view point as a whole, examines it, gathers the data therein, and then offers a rebuttal opinion to the whole, not parts. It's not about an absolute answer, perfection, or completing a generalization of topics into a focal point and view.
Think of it this way... one idea, is one idea even if it is a sum of many different parts.... like a modern car. Yes you have doors, a radio, maybe a sunroof, a cup-holder, and often tinted or polarized windows, but while they are individualized in category and could be shown the need or un-need of each, equally discussed, they are still the sum of the parts of a whole.... one car.
And yes you DID notice a Bruce Lee quotation Swerve. Good job recognizing it. That one quotation has been a very powerful one. I commend you for that.
I'm not actually going to say you are an intellectual Swerve, I'm going to leave that for your final decision out of respect for you. I feel it best to leave it to you to make the final decision in your own intellectualism and where you stand within it. Only then will you not only decide where you are, but where you need to go as well.
Swerve by stating what you did, you did exactly that. You questioned yourself. You saw a need for self advancement, critical thinking, wanting to understand what you do not, and even asked a question.
Intellectualism isn't also about tearing down a view point and trying to simplify it by breaking it down and pointing out it's flaws. Intellectualism takes the view point as a whole, examines it, gathers the data therein, and then offers a rebuttal opinion to the whole, not parts. It's not about an absolute answer, perfection, or completing a generalization of topics into a focal point and view.
Think of it this way... one idea, is one idea even if it is a sum of many different parts.... like a modern car. Yes you have doors, a radio, maybe a sunroof, a cup-holder, and often tinted or polarized windows, but while they are individualized in category and could be shown the need or un-need of each, equally discussed, they are still the sum of the parts of a whole.... one car.
And yes you DID notice a Bruce Lee quotation Swerve. Good job recognizing it. That one quotation has been a very powerful one. I commend you for that.
I'm not actually going to say you are an intellectual Swerve, I'm going to leave that for your final decision out of respect for you. I feel it best to leave it to you to make the final decision in your own intellectualism and where you stand within it. Only then will you not only decide where you are, but where you need to go as well.