plus ca change...
A couple of links to Peter Leithart deserve mentioning: This one talks about the impossiblity that postmodernism can break with modernism. This one talks about the inevitably relative nature of (at least some) truth. (To give a little context when Leithart mentions "Lessing's ditch" he means the break between faith and history. Any statement of history, so the argument goes, cannot be a universal truth for humanity.)
Leithart seems to succeed in taking the strengths of both positions, while ignoring the way they frame the discussion. I am tempted to put him among the tradition of Thomas Reid and "common sense" philosophers. His style leads in this direction. I suppose one way to say would be that Leithart believes in Truth; he believes in truth; and he believes that things that once were true are no longer. When one thinks about it, well, of course that is the case!
Leithart seems to succeed in taking the strengths of both positions, while ignoring the way they frame the discussion. I am tempted to put him among the tradition of Thomas Reid and "common sense" philosophers. His style leads in this direction. I suppose one way to say would be that Leithart believes in Truth; he believes in truth; and he believes that things that once were true are no longer. When one thinks about it, well, of course that is the case!
posted by Aaron Perry at
9:54 AM
1 Comments:
yeah, i can say "of course" now that i've read those two quoted passsages, but in the midst of reading them, i constantly felt like he was breaking down my self-constructed illusive limiting "walls" of thought with a few poundings of a sledge hammer (painful)! that was edifying, quality stuff, ap.
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