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Enjoy these selected aphorisms from Keith's book Simpletism , or click here to read more.
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No Viable Alternative |
There is no viable alternative to economic growth, because an organism is either growing or dying.
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Despite Opinions |
Despite opinions to the contrary, two or more different people can never meet with each other face-to-face, because all that we perceive are characteristics of our own minds, and physical existence is an unproven and an unprovable hypothesis. |
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In Politics |
In politics, there is nothing wrong with some members of the majority party voting with the minority party on some issues or vice versa. In fact, it is a normal part of healthy politics in democracies. |
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An Elitist Scam |
The requirement that original ideas have to be published in the appropriate professional journals or else the original ideas are not considered published is an elitist scam. |
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Creativity and Originality |
Creativity and originality involve leaps of logic that cannot be predetermined, methodized, or taught in schools and universities because they are irrational.
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Why Does Education |
Why does education have to be a competition for good grades and diplomas? Why can’t education be about the acquisition and creation of knowledge, instead of being a competition for good grades and diplomas?
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The Philosophy |
The philosophy of any people or region of the world should be a bridge discipline that links, interprets, and critiques all branches of learning using the aphorism. Philosophy should be done from the perspective of the people or region of the world that is doing the philosophy.
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My philosophy is called simpletism, which is the philosophy of nonnaive common sense. Simpletism is the way nature thinks, and all philosophers should think simpletistically, as well.
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The Third Leg |
Simpletism is the third leg of the scientific method: the first leg is theory; the second leg is experiment/observation/exploration/research; and the third leg is simpletism, which is nonnaive common sense.
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Modern Philosophy Is Dead |
As far as I am concerned, modern philosophy is dead, and it was killed in the twentieth century by analytic and linguistic philosophy, which are really the culmination of secular scholasticism.
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My website, The University of Neoliberal Arts, is an intellectual intergalactic space-ship that is voyaging into the depths of the intellectual universe and beyond. Relax and enjoy the ride and the view. This is your intellectual captain, Professor QED, speaking.
Welcome to my Web site! My name is, Keith N. Ferreira, (aka Professor QED) of the University of Neoliberal Arts, and I am a self-taught, Vietnam-era veteran who has created an intellectual discipline that I call neoliberal arts. Neoliberal arts is about postmodern minimalist philosophy, which is a bridge discipline that links, interprets, and critiques all branches of learning using the aphorism and the short article. It is what liberal arts should have been about all along. My definitive definition of philoscience is that it is the interpretation and critique of all branches of science and, as such, it is, therefore, a subdiscipline of neoliberal arts. If philosophy is to survive, then it must define itself as neoliberal arts, because otherwise philosophy is as good as dead. I was born in Trinidad and Tobago in 1951. I migrated to the United States in 1969, and I served in the U.S. Army from 1970 to 1972. I obtained my U.S. citizenship in 1972. In 1984, I received my Associate in Arts degree from Excelsior College in New York. The U.S. Congress possesses about 12 Ph.D. diplomas that I obtained in 1972 for my contributions to the security and advancement of the U.S. I told U.S. government scientists to give my Ph.D. diplomas to the Congress, because I wanted to prove to them that not all geniuses can make it all the way through the academic process. I turned down an offer to attend Harvard University. The VA official told me that it was Harvard or nothing, so I chose nothing, because I suspected that B. F. Skinner was behind the offer. I also turned down an offer to accept all the Nobel Prizes for 1975. I told a professor at City College in New York City that I did not want to accept all the Nobel Prizes for 1975, because I was getting a lot of ideas at the bottom of society, so I told him, “Why should I move to the top?” Having searched for a medium of communication for a long time, I believe that I have found it in the aphorism. Aphorisms are a mode of communication that I believe is underutilized and underestimated.
I shape my view of life into compact verbal capsules. In my books, I pose a series of conundrums that are provocative in the questions they raise. I challenge commonplace ways of thinking about things and stimulate the thinking mind to look at reality from a whole new perspective. My books will challenge the reader in unexpected ways. Some of the ideas in my earlier writings are superseded by some of the ideas in my later writings, which makes sense, because everyone's ideas and beliefs should be evolving in a positive manner. I would like my readers to know that, regardless of what I or anyone else might say, anything is possible, so people should obey their inward monitors at all times, because no one is infallible.
Paradoxically, much can be contained in the narrow compass of the aphorism. My books encompass such a diverse field of intellectual activity that I believe that every reader may find something that will interest him or her. People who read and master all of my online books and articles will be able to hold their own with the best minds in the world. I guarantee it! Foreign governments that do not take my writings seriously, do so at their own peril. Most foreign governments are probably not aware that the U.S. and Israeli governments take my ideas very seriously. Please feel free to contact me by clicking on my name at the top of each page or the contact link at the bottom of each page.
The University of Neoliberal Arts is a self-empowering educational institution that empowers its graduates to give themselves academic diplomas in Neoliberal Arts when the graduates believe that they are qualified to receive the diplomas in Neoliberal Arts, because by definition self-educators should be empowered to grant themselves academic diplomas in the name of educational institutions like The University of Neoliberal Arts, for instance, that are designed for the purpose.
My websites are the University of Neoliberal Arts and Freedelaware.com, and they are free to everyone, hopefully for a very long time to come. Please note that the University of Neoliberal Arts does not give academic examinations or degrees. You are free to use my university anyhow you wish. When you have finished my course, you can go to a printer and let the printer print out (a) diploma(s) at whatever level of education in Neoliberal Arts that you think that you are qualified for, because when you finish my course, you will become a self-educator with full rights to give yourself whatever academic degree(s) in Neoliberal Arts that you think that you are qualified for. You can put my university as the diploma granting institution on your diploma(s), because my university is for self-educators.
My websites are about the interpretation and critique of concepts in philosophy, and not about names, dates, footnotes, references, bibliographies, etc. in philosophy. If people need those kinds of information, they can seek them elsewhere. Philosophy should be about the interpretation and critique of concepts in philosophy, and not about who said what, when, where, why, etc. Such activities should be left to uninspired scholars. Good Luck!
Thank you, and happy reading!
Professor QED
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