Weekly Quotes
6th May
There are different cultures, and they are not at all composed of lunatics, nor do they work becasue of an extreme version of Protagoras' principle, but because Being permits different approaches and encourages a practical relativism - within certain limits: man, or certain temporarily stable aspects of cultures are measures of things to the extent to which Being permits them to be measures.
There are different cultures, and they are not at all composed of lunatics, nor do they work becasue of an extreme version of Protagoras' principle, but because Being permits different approaches and encourages a practical relativism - within certain limits: man, or certain temporarily stable aspects of cultures are measures of things to the extent to which Being permits them to be measures.
Three Dialogues on Knowledge, (First Dialogue, 1990), Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991. p.44.