Quote by Phillip E. Johnson

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.

If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objecti

Summary

This quote highlights the implications of modernist naturalism, suggesting that if this worldview were valid, objective truth would be limited to the realm of science. Consequently, moral values such as what is considered right and wrong would be subjective, influenced by cultural preferences or political power. The quote further argues that modernist ideologies already possess a considerable degree of power, and if they were the sole determiners of truth and morality, this power would become even more dominant.

Topics

By Phillip E. Johnson

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one million

The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and

I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Labels Appearances Values Institutions

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it i

I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

Illness Sickness Disease

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day,

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are y

I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

Publilius Syrus

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a communit

The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselvesin their separate, and individual capacities. In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere. The desirable things which the individuals of a people can not do, or can not well do, for themselves, fall into two classes: those which have relation to wrongs, and those which have not. Each of these branch off into an infinite variety of subdivisions. The firstthat in relation to wrongsembraces all crimes, misdemeanors, and nonperformance of contracts. The other embraces all which, in its nature, and without wrong, requires combined action, as public roads and highways, public schools, charities, pauperism, orphanage, estates of the deceased, and the machinery of government itself. From this it appears that if all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need for government.

Abraham Lincoln

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts lif

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.

Anthony Liccione

Life Happiness Contentment Acceptance Realization Acknowledgement

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll c

No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.

Love Heaven Never Wait Come

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inab

It is absurd to hold that a man should be ashamed of an inability to defend himself with his limbs, but not ashamed of an inability to defend himself with speech and reason; for the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.

Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull

Accept fate, and move on. Don't yield to the seductive pull of self-pity. Acting like a victim threatens your future.