please help me build a foundation for gathering knowledge (what is right/wrong?)

[Leo Gura]

@LoveandPurpose You'll have to discover that for yourself. I don't know you.

You can enter "undecided" and sample a bit of the courses from each department.

[LoveandPurpose]

@Leo Gura Yes, that's true.

What's your judgement on whether these topics we discussed here tend to be more of a psychological or philosophical nature?

Edited February 23, 2020 by LoveandPurpose

[Leo Gura]

Definitely more philosophical.

This is the branch of philosophy known as epistemology. It tries to answer the question: How do we know anything at all?

Psychology doesn't go as deep. But also philosophy tends to do a lot of mental masturbation on this topic.

Learning to accurately distinguish truth from falsehood is the most challenging endeavor the human mind can undertake because it is the linchpin which holds together reality.

If you fully understood it, your entire sense of physical reality would collapse and you would experience "death". So very few people accurate get that far.

You are not going to reach Truth via university studies. Truth is far too radical for that.

[tedens]

3 hours ago, LoveandPurpose said:

 

I mean knowing how filter out wrong from right knowledge. Knowing about self-bias, ideology, spiral dynamics helps and I wonder if there's similar models/theories on that.

One person says capitalism is good. The other person says capitalism is the best system that's out there. Others say that a different, more modern form of it would be better. How can I know which one is true without reading 100 books on capitalism?

You will learn this after learning psychology and what ego is and first of all by approaching the truth closer to which is philosophy.

Edited February 23, 2020 by tedens

[LoveandPurpose]

@Leo Gura Just listened to ‚How Society Evolves‘ and that‘s the kind of knowledge I meant. Models to judge statements/opinions/world views.

Being able to filter information. When someone talks a certain way about democracy, I can judge that information through that survey or spiral dynamics, getting closer to true information about that topic.

For further research: is this being labeled big picture thinking?