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One of the most important and least discussed tasks of a democracy is to protect its members from the ideologies it contains. All ideologies must be seen in perspective. One must not take them too seriously. One must read them like fairy tales which have lots of interesting things to say but which may also contain sizeable errors and wicked lies. Even when acting in accordance with a certain point of view, one’s attitude should be that of an undercover agent who, in order to succeed in a strange country, adopts its beliefs and follows them in the most minute detail, but without ever being fully committed. This applies to all beliefs. It applies to the belief in the existence of a Christian god, it applies to the belief that all men are essentially equal, and it applies to science.
Written in 1974.
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Feyerabend, P.K. (1984). Philosophy of Science 2001. In: Cohen, R.S., Wartofsky, M.W. (eds) Methodology, Metaphysics and the History of Science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 84. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6331-3_4
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