What is the philosophy of Arvind Kejriwal’s and AAP? It is a very simple question to answer. The answer is obvious: Pragmatism: “The Pragmatists declared that philosophy must be practical and that practicality consists of dispensing with all absolute principles and standards—that there is no such thing as objective reality or permanent truth—that truth is that which works, and its validity can be judged only by its consequences—that no facts can be known with certainty in advance, and anything may be tried by rule-of-thumb—that reality is not firm, but fluid and “indeterminate,” that there is no such thing as a distinction between an external world and a consciousness (between the perceived and the perceiver), there is only an undifferentiated package-deal labeled “experience,” and whatever one wishes to be true, is true, whatever one wishes to exist, does exist, provided it works or makes one feel better. Epistemologically, their dogmatic agnosticism holds, as an absolute, that a principle is false because it is a principle—that conceptual integration (i.e., thinking) is impractical or “simplistic”—that an idea which is clear and simple is necessarily “extreme and unworkable.” From “The New Intellectual” by Ayn Rand. Read this article AAP does not believe in any ‘-isms’, says Yogendra Yadav livemint/Politics/1bZ8xwxxvBEixvx3DzgcRK/AAP-does-not-believe-in-any-isms-says-Yogendra-Yadav.html What about the crusade of AAP against corruption? Corruption is only a minor issue in governance. With respect to issues of economic development of a nation, what is needed is the identification of the nature and source of corruption and polices and ideas that were that were the cause of corruption and eliminate them. The root of corruption is the fascist-socialistic polices of India since independence. The policies of AAP (if they have any) would only lead to replacement of the present corrupt people with their own party members and the businessmen who support them rather than root out corruption from the system because they have no program to change such policies. The above cited article about Yogendra Yadav is the proof for this. Now, I quote Ayn Rand from “How to Read (and Not to Write),” The Ayn Rand Letter: If a building were threatened with collapse and you declared that the crumbling foundation has to be rebuilt, a pragmatist would answer that your solution is too abstract, extreme, unprovable, and that immediate priority must be given to the need of putting ornaments on the balcony railings, because it would make the tenants feel better. There was a time when a man would not utter arguments of this sort, for fear of being rightly considered a fool. Today, Pragmatism has not merely given him permission to do it and liberated him from the necessity of thought, but has elevated his mental default into an intellectual virtue, has given him the right to dismiss thinkers (or construction engineers) as naive, and has endowed him with that typically modern quality: the arrogance of the concrete-bound, who takes pride in not seeing the forest fire, or the forest, or the trees, while he is studying one inch of bark on a rotted tree stump.”
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 02:55:47 +0000
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