Archetypes Of Wisdom And Relativism

This topic is something that I’ve been thinking about extensively lately. It’s a hot button issue in politics today. Some people are arguing that we live in the “post-truth” era, in which “alternative facts” are possible. Based on my experience viewing this, the conversations in class, and the reading that I’ve done in the textbook, I have changed my views. Although, first I’ll explain the opinion of my peers.

Devin believes that feelings and truth are connected. That, “truth is a feeling of correctness and rightness within yourself.” People may disagree, but that doesn’t change the sense the person has. To which I counter that I and everyone have believed something correct that was discovered later to be false.

Zach’s view is that truth …show more content…
In my youth, I used to enjoy relativism a lot more maybe it was my way of being annoying to those around me. However, as of recently, a switch flipped in me, and it was through reading the textbook for this class, titled Archetypes of Wisdom. In which it has a brief one page talking about how relativism is very common nowadays. I didn’t realize how rampant it is till it was pointed out. And because of this, I have started to believe that it’s becoming a …show more content…
In the former, I believe there’s value through obvious observation of our surroundings. In the latter that the universe is ordered and structured by the logos, primarily that things happen for a reason. In this regard, I’m a determinist, except on the levels of quantum mechanics in which things seemly act probabilistically. This obstruction, however, doesn’t change the fact that we do not have freewill. However, although I’m not a physicist, my gut says matter on the quantum level could behave deterministically, it’s just we don’t have the knowledge to prove it. In this regard I claim ignorance. As for now I, unfortunately, remain a solipsist, I want humanity to break these bonds; hopefully, it’s just a matter of