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November 30, 2011
"The banner of modernity, on which in letters of purple and tittles of gold, is writ the slogan of the modern mind: we define our own values!"
It is a sentiment worthy of the Pepsi Generation. I am puzzled, and contemptuous,of those who claim it is progress to return to an intellectual world that is formless and void, as if no human race had ever existed, nor any forefathers ever learned any moral lessons in life, in order to create for oneself, by fiat like a god, a personal cosmos. Are you going to write your own Periodic Table, O Demiurge, after you are done writing your own Ten Commandments? -- On What We Lost | John C. Wright's Journal
Posted by gerardvanderleun at November 30, 2011 10:06 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Yes, they want to corrupt and infect science with the virus of postmodernity like they have literature and art. They want mathematics and science, both dealing in absolutes, to stop and be more relativistic.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 1, 2011 1:15 PM