Sublime

Unfortunately, however, this sane recognition of the relative nature of systems of value and the contingency of judgments is often taken one step further—to complete relativization of all values, namely to the conclusion that all opinions about truth and falsehood are equally valid, or that all ethical and moral judgments must be considered

Prigogine showed that the steady states that matter reaches in systems that are out of equilibrium tend to be organized. After chaos there is information.

There are no “pure” facts, observations, or empirical data upon which to found theoretical constructions, because our perceptions are heavily structured by our brains, habits of thought, prejudices, and theories. Nor is there a purely rational procedure of thinking that can grant certainty, because we are never truly able to reset to zero the

The point is that we are always immersed in a given culture, and it is impossible to step outside.