An
extremely illuminating talk at Stanford University by prominent
philosopher and USC professor Dallas Willard. I've already listened to
this several times because there's so much insight to absorb slowly.
THE MOST PROFOUND is Dallas Willard's articulation of the relationship between TRUTH and FREEDOM.
I've
listened to many Veritas Forum talks and I've really, really liked most
of what I've listened to (oftentimes multiple times) thus far -- ex.
anything Ravi Zacharias, anything John Lennox, anything Os Guinness,
anything N. T. Wright has to say.
But this talk is the MOST PROFOUND. - Theary C. Seng
Charter 77 "Truth prevails for those who live in truth." Russian proverb "One word of truth outweighs the entire world." Jesus "...and the truth will set you free."
Truth is essential for a good life, for freedom.
1. Two companion crises to the crisis of truth: (i) crisis of character (who a person is when no one sees except God), (ii) crisis of ethics (Shirley Jackson's The Lottery; "Today, it is worse to judge evil than to do evil, so confound is the ethical confusion"; Nietzsche's will to power)
2. Two arguments for those who believe in truth but have grown careless about it: "Without truth, there is only manipulation" (Picasso); "Without truth, there is no freedom" (Isaiah Berlin; "freedom from, freedom for")
3. Two arguments for those skeptical about it, have no interest in it: Peter Berger
"to relativize the relativizer"; they don't apply relativism to their
position; there is clarity in consistency; any thought can be thought,
any argument can be argued; there are some thoughts that can be argued but not lived; A.J. Ayer's Verification Principle
- all claims must be verified through the 5 senses or they're
non-sense; but the Verification Principle itself could not be verified
through the 5 senses, so the Principle is nonsense. Point to the
Signals of Transcendence. Atheist: "There is no god", an absolute (not
relative) position; they are not saying as a true relativist, "There is
no god for me, there may be for you."
4. Two
challenges that truth to bring to all of us: People try to shape truth
to their desires; the sharper the minder, the slipperier the heart;
Aldous Huxley: "decided" (not "discovered") the world has no meaning.
Triangle of First Principles: Freedom requires virtue, which requires faith, which requires freedom...
Basil Mitchell's Parable of the Resistance Fighter
The YUON's CPP rank and file, doctors, lawyers, business communities big and small and the Cambodian youth will discreetly abandon Hun Sen on this 2018 election for the CNRP with or without Kem Sokha and Sam raingsy. And there is nothing HUN SEN can do about it. They will take HUN SEN's money to discreetly vote for the CNRP... Bravo the Khmer people [without Hun Sen]!!!
ReplyDeleteI predict CPP will win big in 2018. CNRP is at its lowest ebb in the recent history.
DeleteOne leader has been exposed:
_ as a sex miniac for young girls
_ betraying the party working with the enemy
_ an usurper the presidency
; the other leader has been exposed as:
_ a self-important coward
_an delusional mental.
CNRP will lose so much votes in 2018. CPP will win a lot more votes.
Yup, the end of the road for the YUON's troll here on T2P as we know it!
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