Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker aptly summarises the predicament of scholars who straddle both worlds of academia and activism – is the pursuit of knowledge meant to discover truth or to achieve "social justice"? At a time when activism and the quest for "social justice" are intimately intertwined with ideology, it's not a dilemma that can be easily dismissed. Or could these be reconciled, as Isaiah Berlin once remarked, that "justice is truth in action"?
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"Of all that is written I love only what a man has written with his blood. Write with blood and you will experience that blood is spirit."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra