The Enlightenment means shining the light of truth upon our hitherto darkened condition. So far, so good.

I am all for uttering true propositions, as many as possible. I am not arguing against the truth of propositions; I am arguing that truth cannot be confined to propositions.

A repetition arises from the underlying truth that this play bears across generations, which keeps getting replayed and re-enacted in changing times and for ever-changing audiences.

In modernity the faculty of reason began to function like a high court before which everything else had to appear in order to be judged rational or real as opposed to irrational or illusory or even mad. Reason judges whether claims are true or not, just like a judge would. In the place of the sun of truth in which all things bask, modernity puts

I am arguing that what we say about religion is repeated in other areas like art and ethics, in everything that goes to make up our wider conception of life. My hypothesis is that religion is a clue to the travels and travails of truth, not the truth of assertions,

Alternatively, a fool seeks a good thing but excessively, to the neglect of the whole, in a disproportionate way, so that it runs wild over the rest of his life, like people who strive for success in their business – which can be a good thing – but in so single-minded a way that it destroys their health or family life, which is unwise.

Hermeneutics is the art of negotiating multiple finite, lower-case truths, coping with the shifting tides and circumstances of truth while not allowing any eight-hundred-pound gorillas into the room.

because wisdom requires that the three hang together.

The short answer is that once rationality takes over, a profound inversion takes place: truth ceases to be a claim made upon us, and becomes a claim we make on behalf of our assertions.