by Selwyn Duke,The New American:
“Plato is my friend,” ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle reputedly said, “but truth is a greater friend.” This was echoed two millennia later by English scientist Isaac Newton. “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend,” he said, “but truth is a greater friend.” And today many might say “Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, Newton is my friend, but …myvalues are a greater friend.”
This attitude, too, is precisely why Western civilization is disintegrating, warned commentator Laura Hollis Thursday.
In apieceat Creators.com, Hollis opens discussing U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Munich Security Conference appearance:
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Rubio’s speech emphasized the shared heritage, history and culture of Europe and the United States — described broadly as “Western civilization” — and called upon the nations of Europe to defend and be proud of that heritage and to preserve it.
Rubio mentioned just a few of the great contributions Europe has made to America and the people of the world, including “the rule of law, the universities and the scientific revolution.” He credited Christianity as the foundation of Western civilization, referring to the Christian faith of America’s founders and first settlers as “a sacred inheritance, an unbreakable link between the old world and the new.”
But one thing Rubio neglected to mention, Hollis notes,
but which is inherent in every point he made, was that the greatest achievements of Western civilization are grounded in the pursuit, protection and promotion oftruth.
The omission isn’t really surprising. For the concept of Truth relevant here — i.e., moral principles existing independently of man — is foreign to most people today.
Source: SGT Report
