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Good post. It is kind of amazing that this needs to be said.

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There are naive views and naive people, but sometimes they are right - so perhaps we should attend to them. The Stoics urge us to see things in their elements, as they really are: and this can be to see things as a child, or a foreigner, might see them. This is how Candide sees things in Voltaire's classic, and he is a pure soul, or as pure as humans get. And finally, he is rewarded with a simple life with his wife (no longer young) and his friends - the extent of human success, ultimately.

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Good point. Another sense of naive is the unsophisticated, childlike. Seeing things as if for the first time. That perspective is perhaps the most useful for shedding false beliefs and searching for what's really there.

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