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| Agitation against the intellectual corruption in nepal:rethinking of its purview |
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“In the widest sense of the word “thinking”, everyone thinks. In the strictest sense in which “to think” means “to think logically”. Some people never think, and none is always thinking even when he appears to be doing so (Stebbling, 1950, p 5).”
“ Thinking, we have seen, essentially consists in solving a problem. The ability to think depends upon the power of seeing connexions. Reflective thinking consists in pondering upon a given set of facts so as to elicit their connexions…The mere addition of one fact to another would be of little value for reflective thinking (ibid. p 4)”.
Almost all of the major political parties (Maoist, royalist, democratic, or otherwise) seem to be reluctant to countenance this movement. Most of them except CPN (Maoist) wielded power in the past through which they institutionalized intellectual corruption. Most leaders in the present royalist political party were in a position of authority during the 30-years-long autocratic Panchayat regime. The intellectual corruption that is extant now in Nepal is also attributable to their certain behavior. Likewise, most of the leaders in Nepali Congress (NC) and CPN (UML) also deserve bitter criticism as a response to their action that consolidated intellectual corruption. Once they found themselves in a higher position of authority, which was a golden opportunity to wipe out intellectual corruption. But, they preferred intellectual corruption to intellectual progress. Because opposing intellectual corruption that exists now is opposing their own past bad behavior, these political parties do not want to take part in this movement, and also do not want it to gain momentum. Student leaders are also turning their blind eye to this movement. The reason is self-explanatory. They have also played a crucial role in appointing most of the part-time teachers without selection. I think they are not so stupid that they agitate against their own irresponsible past action.
There can be no doubt that there are some leaders in all political parties and in their sister organizations who are strongly opposed to intellectual corruption. They fear to oppose intellectual corruption because their opposition may lead to their exclusion from the organization. So, it is hard to believe that they do something to add some force (force in the form of pressure exerted by the involvement in the movement) to the ongoing movement.
Works Cited
Stebbing, L. Susan.1950. A Modern Introduction to Logic. New York and Evanston: Harper Torch Book/ The Science Library, p 4 and 5
Pearson, E.S. (ed). 1978. The History of Statistics in the 17th & 18th Centuries against the Changing Background of Intellectual, Scientific, and religious Thought: Lectures by Karl Pearson given at University College London during the academic sessions 1921-1933. London& High Wycombe: Charles Griffin & Co.Ltd, preface
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Ajit Rai
I take a deep interest in development and underdevelopment as well as in politics, especially in its relation to economics. Currently, I am undertaking systematic research, and intend to theorize about Nepalese development and underdevelopment from a socio-philosophical approach.
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