Sublime

In philosophical circles, Rawls’s approach is described as asserting the “priority of the right over the good.” On this view, our rights define a framework within which we can each pursue our beliefs about how to live; in contrast to the alternative, where we start with a particular conception of the good, and design rights in order to promote it.

the Huguenins have to channel their conduct, not their beliefs, so as to leave space for other Americans who believe something different.[6]

Vesuvius Challenge 2023—

I wrestle with and write about theology because I care about it to the depths of my being, because questions about who and what God is, and about what it means to be a Jew and a human being in the twenty-first century matter to me like almost nothing else does.

If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

These are truly uncharted waters for the country. We have in the past argued over the values to be applied to objective reality, or occasionally over what constituted objective reality, but never the existence or relevance of objective reality itself. —Michael Hayden (CIA director, 2018) We have a risk of getting to a place where we don’t have