Cause and effect and the art of interpretation
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. In thinking, it is important to see the relationship between a cause and its effect, so-called causality. But precisely becoming aware of the lack of such causality is also an important competency for the art of interpretation. If we look at the interpretation […]
Freedom: groupthinking and independent thinking
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. We are increasingly seeing that individual people with strong opinions are, it seems, easily persuaded to conform to the prevailing idea of a group. Of course, it could be the advancing insight of that individual that makes him or her change their mind, […]
COVID-19: humanity under siege
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. The NOS published a report on an article that appeared in the German newspaper ‘Die Welt’ about released emails from March and April 2020 showing that government leaders asked questions to scientists in order to get a mental grip on the situation, which […]
Vaccination passport: on agnosticism and the no-good-feeling
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. In the World Economic Forum (WEF) Davos 2021 document on the vaccination passport, one specific word stands out: agnostic. The vaccination passport will be a document that gives data of the person in question in an agnostic way. In the theory of knowledge […]
The limitless moral paternalism of one single opinion
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. One of the striking phenomena of opinion formation is the moralizing trend that is there now. This is a kind of dictatorship of morality, which in itself is of course contradictory. But man is a being with an individual conscience, and in moral […]
COVID-19: the lie rules
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. The facts are the facts, and you can hide those facts for a long time with lies and sophisms, but they remain hard facts. History teaches us that those facts always come to light in the end. We have only just seen this […]
COVID-19: the helplessness of science
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. The scientist believes that the mind of the human being, or the algorithms and computer models created by humane, are able to fathom what measures should be taken and whether those measures are effective. But the measurements that science makes are merely a […]
Conspiracy thinking or the search for understanding in what seems incomprehensible
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. In this corona crisis, in which our society is driven to extremes, we see a phenomenon that is referred to by many as ‘conspiracy thinking’. But where the term ‘conspiracy thinker’ carries a vicious mockery, we can give some homage to this thinker, […]
COVID-19: considerations on vaccination
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. Many people wonder whether they want to be vaccinated or not, regardless of any obligation to be vaccinated. It should be the free choice of each individual to consider receiving a vaccination, but for this consideration the individual needs to understand what a […]
Freedom and motives for compulsory measures
The text below is a literal transcription of the spoken video text. If, as human beings, we know the motive for restricting our freedom, and also how this motive relates to the way in which our freedom is restricted by means of measures, then we can accept the measures and follow them, and do not […]