if every society makes its own truth what's it to you ... I don't know most things ... but I can imagine ... suppose for example our society was divided on the question ... one side says we have a set of sure and certain truths ... the other says of course but given this set are there any others ... now the first side ... let's call call them the Dogmatics ... sees no heresy as yet in the second side ... let's call them the Dynamics ... but it doesn't like their attitude ... they keep saying they will not violate revealed truth but in the next breath they say but what if ... and then they violate revealed truth in the hypothetical ... so the first side cautions censures demotes and segregates the second until revealed truth is no longer questioned ... but complains the first side the bad attitude continues ... it's not now so much of a matter what they say but of what they care about ... we could not bear to hear god's truth questioned ... we will not abide seeing it ignored ... we have just so many hours in society each day ... we will not see them wasted on troglodytes and cenotaphs
cf rubenstein, aristotle's children, ch 6
No comments:
Post a Comment