![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Truth is based on the texts of the Gifford lectures delivered last year at the University of Glasgow, and on other, occasional lectures and articles written over the past four or five years. He is learned, astute, admirably sensible, and possesses an elegant and clear prose style. ![]() Simon Blackburn is professor of philosophy at Cambridge, and the author of fine popularising books such as The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics. Without absolute truths, and the reiterated insistence of their enduring reality, the Catholic church would have no basis, a fact to which Ratzinger and, we assume, the vast majority of cardinals, were acutely alive when they sealed themselves into the Sistine Chapel to choose a successor to their dead capo di capi.īut are there absolute truths, outside the cloistered imaginations of the Princes of the Church and their more submissive subjects? One is tempted to adapt Kafka's remark about hope, and say that no doubt there is truth, an infinite amount of truth - but not for us. The point for Papa Ratzi, as the friskier outlets of the Italian media lost no time in dubbing him, is that relativism, however wishy-washy and New Ageist it may seem to the rest of us, strikes at the very foundation stone of the church, which is the conviction that there exist truths which are eternal, unchallengeable and verified by faith - in a word, absolute. ![]()
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