I know, my thread titles are getting more verbose by the day, but please bear with me and don't turn away - with a yawn - just yet. This is a quickie, one of the very few quickie threads I've allowed myself. I'm actively restraining my overindulgent propensity to strain out sentences
Experience tells me that there is a lot of truth to this notion.
Do you agree?
"Few discoveries are more irritating than those which expose the pedigree of ideas"
- Lord Acton (1907) "Essays on Liberty"
The "pedigree of ideas" is the history behind ideas. Acton is explaining how the one brave enough to forage into intellectual history - the field that studies the origins and development of ideas - may be in for some unwelcome surprises; they may well find that an idea they value highly came from their political opponents or a worldview they wouldn't conventionally expect or want it to arise from, for instance.- Lord Acton (1907) "Essays on Liberty"
Experience tells me that there is a lot of truth to this notion.
Do you agree?