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"That sort of ignorance would be dangerous in a doorman, let alone a president".
And that sort of ignorance is perfectly compatible with democracy, since no one can be expected never to hold false beliefs.
Ironically, this is exactly the sort of ignorance fuelled by precisely that "indirect exposure" to Muslim women which robbed the Labour Party of its long-held seat in the Bradford West by-election so spectacularly.
In a paper called "'Wild' Psychoanalysis" (1910), he derides (his own) "long superseded idea . . . that the patient suffers from a sort of ignorance, and that if one removes this ignorance by giving him information (about the causal connection of his illness with his life, about his experiences in childhood, and so on), he is bound to recover".
The second sort of ignorance is the ignorance the lower has of the higher.
The first sort of ignorance is the ignorance a higher principle has of what is lower than it.
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One sort of culpable ignorance which has received a fair bit of attention from philosophers writing about evil is ignorance that results from self-deception.
"Mostly that sort of attitude is to do with a kind of innocence, or a kind of ignorance, if you like.
That sort of cultural ignorance is a bit cringeworthy.
But there's something broader going on: a sort of willful ignorance, supposedly driven by moral concerns but actually reflecting domestic politics.
In our model the mechanism of peripheral tolerance is very basic, static and unspecific, and could be considered a sort of 'peripheral ignorance'.
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