December 30, 2008.
In twenty-eight days I begin my graduate study in English at CSULB. In preparation of this undertaking I have begun to involve myself in great works of literature. The benefit of literature is the transference of grand and changing thoughts from writer to reader. John Stuart Mill wrote in response to his dads political theory. In the chapter: Introductory, Mill establishes the foundation of his political theory which consists of the classification of liberty, rightful liberty partakers, hindrances to liberty, connections between custom, the will of the people and morality.
If the opinion [withheld] is right, [the people] are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth, if wrong, they lose what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error. (Mill 76)
Truth is evident most completely when contrasted with error- which ensures that both truth and error can be allowed to be transmitted freely in societies that allow such freedoms. Truth then can be clearly discerned by citizens freely as transmitted in truth and in error.
Complications arise in a people who lose the polarity of opinion- truth and error both exist and MUST be discerned by individuals. Truth and error have "migrated" closer to each other because of the inability of individuals to discern the difference between both. Two pillars standing 10 meters from each other are clearly seen to be separate at close range, but seem to be one at a from great distance. The individual has been cast far from the discerning distance. Whether classed as citizen, individual, student, or Christian, individuals must be able to discern the difference between truth and error and must know that both co-habitate the same sphere we called "Every-day-life."
(a most troubling) Post script:
Kierkegaard, Søren. The Diary of Søren, ed. Peter Rohde. Carol Publishing, NY 1983.
In twenty-eight days I begin my graduate study in English at CSULB. In preparation of this undertaking I have begun to involve myself in great works of literature. The benefit of literature is the transference of grand and changing thoughts from writer to reader. John Stuart Mill wrote in response to his dads political theory. In the chapter: Introductory, Mill establishes the foundation of his political theory which consists of the classification of liberty, rightful liberty partakers, hindrances to liberty, connections between custom, the will of the people and morality.
If the opinion [withheld] is right, [the people] are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth, if wrong, they lose what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error. (Mill 76)
Truth is evident most completely when contrasted with error- which ensures that both truth and error can be allowed to be transmitted freely in societies that allow such freedoms. Truth then can be clearly discerned by citizens freely as transmitted in truth and in error.
Complications arise in a people who lose the polarity of opinion- truth and error both exist and MUST be discerned by individuals. Truth and error have "migrated" closer to each other because of the inability of individuals to discern the difference between both. Two pillars standing 10 meters from each other are clearly seen to be separate at close range, but seem to be one at a from great distance. The individual has been cast far from the discerning distance. Whether classed as citizen, individual, student, or Christian, individuals must be able to discern the difference between truth and error and must know that both co-habitate the same sphere we called "Every-day-life."
(a most troubling) Post script:
Well, the real conflict between Christianity and man lies in that Christianity is Absolute, or teaches there exists something Absolute, and demands of the Christian that his life must express the existence of something Absolute. It is in this sense that I say I have never known a Christian; I have never seen anyone whose life expressed that. People's Christianity consists of profession upon profession, assertions of orthodoxy, attacks on heterodoxy, etc. but their lives, exactly like those of the heathens, reveal that man exists in relativity. People's lives are nothing but relativities.Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. Penguin Classics, NY. 1986.
Søren Kierkegaard, 1848
Kierkegaard, Søren. The Diary of Søren, ed. Peter Rohde. Carol Publishing, NY 1983.
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