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Gurevich, P. S.
Stupidity as the Sister of Absurdity
// Philosophy and Culture.
2014. № 5.
P. 645-650.
URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=64854
Gurevich, P. S. Stupidity as the Sister of Absurdity
Abstract:
The author views stupidity as a social phenomenon. He analyzes gnoseological, social and psychological
sources of this phenomenon. He also underlines that stupidity is difficult to be recognized because stupidity accompanies
the mind and the mind always finds an excuse for stupidity using rather unexpected arguments. Meanwhile
stupidity has many faces and is quite dangerous. The author of the article provides an insight into how stupidity has
been viewed in the cultural history and analyzes Erasmus Roterodamus’ work The Praise of Folly and Kant’s thoughts
regarding this phenomenon. In his research the author uses historical and phenomenological methods of viewing the
problem. He also carries out the comparative analysis of interpretations of stupidity at different epochs and discusses
the relation between these interpretations and events in modern life.
The novelty of the present approach is in the fact that the relation between stupidity and absurdity is being discussed
for the first time in philosophical and psychological literature and that the author draws our attention to the existential
interpretation of social and cultural absurdities. The author offers a classification of different variants of stupidity
and nonsense: historical (exemplary) stupidity, foreign (stereotypical) stupidity, ordinary (unlimited) stupidity, mystical
(exclusive) stupidity, national (authentic) stupidity.
Keywords:
philosophy, psychology, absurdity, stupidity, reason, history, rationalism, mind, polysexuality, intellect.
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