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What is 'truth' to Godwin? He keeps suggesting in Political Justice that true wisdom is to never stop thinking and revising, but also that there is a Truth that can be reached with proper rational inquiry. Once I reach a conclusion haven't I stopped thinking?

Is the answer just a negative dialectics and that truth is just a misguided hope to fuel understanding?

>> No.14487252
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14487252

>Be like water

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i think he considers there to be an endpoint of human development that is "Truth", but not that it will necessarily result in a cessation of thinking. after all, there will always be the specifics of life, which would be the application of the principle of justice and the application of virtue to everyday life. presumably, considering his doctrine of necessity, there is a teleological endpoint.

>> No.14488433

Bump

>> No.14489354

>>14487252
Effort post butterfly, you're the expert in anarchism here.

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>>14489354
I’m not sure what it is to Godwin, but >>14487703
May be right. I know what it is to me

>> No.14489725

>>14489437
I appreciate your humility. I'm not sure why you get such a raw reception on this board (well, i do, but y'know, it seems undeserved).