And today more than ever, knowing about that society involves first of all choosing what approach the inquiry will take, and that necessarily means choosing how society can answer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.
Over the past few years, many of us have increasingly begun to question the direction and meaning of our society as it has developed over the past several centuries.
Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.
We have to be guided by the interest of society and the development of the state.
We're in an age of enlightenment, and we have a choice as a society which path to take.
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?
Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.
What we do as a society is seek simple answers.