"Should it trouble us that our views on human nature are largely a matter of conjecture or temperament, given that they affect everything from our attitude to self-improvement to criminal justice? Or do you think there’s a master-discipline or method that might finally and definitively tell us the truth about who we are and why we are the way we are?"
Yes on both propositions which are totally not in opposition and has been the holy grail of all philosophies even those that have given up "No Exit" and those with absurd hope "Waiting for Godot”. We can only reach objective knowledge asymptotically and in order to obtain the result of the second proposition must cross the River Jordan to the Holy Land for objective reality.
"Should it trouble us that our views on human nature are largely a matter of conjecture or temperament, given that they affect everything from our attitude to self-improvement to criminal justice? Or do you think there’s a master-discipline or method that might finally and definitively tell us the truth about who we are and why we are the way we are?"
Yes on both propositions which are totally not in opposition and has been the holy grail of all philosophies even those that have given up "No Exit" and those with absurd hope "Waiting for Godot”. We can only reach objective knowledge asymptotically and in order to obtain the result of the second proposition must cross the River Jordan to the Holy Land for objective reality.
This journey is not for the faint hearted.
Shabbat Shalom, Hodesh Adar Tov and Increase Joy
Menachem