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My Portion Forever
6 years ago

It seems that humans are built to assume absolutes, but if you don’t have it outside yourself, in God, then you have to become your own god/absolute and have to fight with all the other gods.
And we changeable creatures make horrible absolutes.

Malik
Malik
6 years ago

I’ve been thinking about this a lot actually. It’s funny that conservatives attack liberals for being post modern and relativists. But the liberals are now standing up for empirical truth during the Trump era while the conservatives are now much less against relativism, as it helps them whenever Trump says something rediculous.

bethyada
bethyada
6 years ago
Reply to  Malik

Examples?

paulm01
paulm01
6 years ago

“… that our great Kantian sky hook wasn’t actually bolted to anything.”

But is the left-handed smoke shifter pivot point anchored to anything as well?

Kevin Brendler
Kevin Brendler
6 years ago

” … the reductio that made all our crackerjack thinkers realize … that … one man’s guess was as good as another’s.”

Would to God that our contemporary “thinkers” actually viewed their opinions as mere guesses!

The worst of them, the growing majority of them, it seems, are full of a hateful and intense confidence in their unbolted irrationality.

“The blood-dimmed tide is loosed ….”

Yeats