It would be easier for me to reject all established values, if I knew what they were.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Rejecting all values would be easy if one first knew what those values were.
- In plain terms
- You can't reject what you don't know.
- What can you take from it?
- Identify your values before questioning them.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What values do you hold?
- How do you discover hidden assumptions?
Another view
Sometimes values are implicit and hard to articulate.
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