Does The Absolute Truth In Galileo's Letter To Benedetto Castelli

In the letter, Letter to Benedetto Castelli by Galileo, he expresses that the scriptures from the bible deonstatreses the absolute truth and the correct interpretation of the scriptures are vital for undertanding. As well the corrlation of the scripture and nature both derive from God. Galileo describes the importane to know the meaning of the words in the bible, “For the Holy Scripture and nature both equally derive from the divine Word”, (Galileo Galilei). Galileo compares nature and scripture to describe that niether gives commandsor are direct in their intentions. Both are the creation from God, and the correct interpretation gives insight in comprehension. Galileo effevtibely used ethos in his letter because in his era theword …show more content…
Montaigne describes how men went looking for something new to learn and obtain, but they didn’t accept the truth in differences. Montaingne indicates, “I am afraid our eyes are bigger than our bellies, and that we have more curiosity than capacity; for we grasp at all, but catch nothing but wind”, (Montaigne). In the end of a discovery, men that seeked gained nothing of knowledge of the people and ends up destroying their culture. Montaigne further apeals the readers with ethos by the aspiration that people in his era thrieved for. Their greatest ambition was to gain more wealth and power by taking more land and colonizing it as their own. Montaigne gives an example of the dream, “Carthaginians, having crossed the Atlantic Sea without the Straits of Gibraltar, and sailed a very long time, discovered at last a great and fruitful island, all covered over with wood, and watered with several broad and deep rivers, far remote from all terra firma; and that they, and others after them, allured by the goodness and fertility of the soil, went thither with their wives and children, and began to plant a colony”, (Montaigne). He then describes the misguidane of the invaders in their failed attempt in making something as thier own of their govern in a new world. For the newcomers of a new land will alwyas be ignorant and view other individual’s lives as savages that have not been civilzed in their standards. Montaige describes the reasoning for the arrogance, “As, indeed, we have no other level of truth and reason than the example and idea of the opinions and customs of the place wherein we live”, (Monataigne). He decribes it as to be natural for people to be stubborn their ways for that was all they knew growing up. Montaigne peruays furthermore, with the ideal that people will not have their percepions changed