truepeers
2011-11-26 22:05:35
As Rene Girard says, “We didn’t stop burning witches because we invented science; we invented science because we stopped burning witches”
Surely you don’t think “knowledge” has no underlying ethical purpose or motivation? Of course, if knowledge is collective it must have. And what motivates the human ethical quest if not the threat of human-on-human violence? As for the individual, if he is solely a creation of modern times, if he is not a working out of a possibility or dynamic inherent in the very origin of humanity, then any explanation you offer for his miraculous appearance will ultimately be in the “it came from outer space” genre. I know Europe can seem weird sometimes, but really….
