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This 3 page paper examines Aristotle's statement "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." The statement is interpreted. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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observation by Aristotle. After all, it seems that it is the case that people who simply hear something, and believe it, are rather easily led. As some have observed, people
are sheep. They go to church and believe what the preacher says, suggesting that not to do so would be blasphemy. Similarly, they believe everything they hear on the news.
Reading the National Enquirer for example gives them information about aliens babies and mysterious happenings and they are inclined to believe those things. After all, they have seen pictures. Of
course, the general public is not always so gullible, and in fact, it is the critic or philosopher or academic who is criticized. It is the academic who questions Gods
existence and in fact, everything. Not believing in something at first glance, the educated mind assesses and reasons and draws a conclusion. But the general public does something different. Most
people simply do as they are told and believe what the experts say is correct. They do what they are supposed to do. They hardly contemplate more serious things in
life than the mundane. They do not think deeply. All they want is to know about how to save taxes, how to lose weight, how to raise children properly and
so forth. The majority of people are not much interested in deeper issues. One may relate this to a personal experience in college. If a student perhaps had a class
where the professor says something questionable, they would look it up in a book or on the Internet and perhaps even question the professor. One might find out that the
professor was right, or wrong. Either way, the point is that the student does not take what the professor says at face value. While many academics are flexible enough to
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