A famous story was taught in Iranian schools like this: A man asks his cook to prepare the best food for him. The cook cooks him a dish made of tongue. The next day he asks the cook to prepare the worst food for him, and he cooks him a dish made of tongue again. The master asks the cook the reason. He gets the answer: It is the tongue that makes things look the best and the worst, and whatever it wants.
But this story has a major philosophical flaw: language is only a means of expressing thought.
Words that are right, wrong, warmongering, peace-seeking, humanitarian, anti-human, etc., and lying through the tongue; are only expressions of thoughts.
This is where religions and all the seemingly false philosophies of the Western philosophers are all false and fundamentally wrong, and are presented in a different (false) form by the rich and priests, rabbis, clerics, monks, etc., and they never allow people to reach social-human reason.
This thought (religious or real human philosophical) is taught to individuals, which can be the best and the worst.
For more philosophical information, refer to my article on “The Age of Reason, the Age of Political Reason, the Age of Social Reason, the Age of Philosophical Reason”.
May 18, 2025
Philosopher of the School
M. Hassan Baygan
Uppsala – Sweden
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