the conviction that the unknown can be known
“But it is not just the ambition to explore the unknown that we inherit from the Greeks; it is the conviction that the unknown can be known.
The confidence that the world can be charted and measured and mapped and understood – and that there is a rational order to the cosmos, governed by certain fundamental laws, laws that men can observe and the mind can come to understand.
This was the foundation of the Western mind: our math, our science, our medicine.
Our philosophy, ethics, and religion.
It paved the way for the gospel of Jesus Christ to find fertile soil in Europe and flourish into the empire of Christendom. It was the foundation of the riches of Christian theology – of Augustine and Aquinas and the whole tradition of natural law.
It gave birth to a civilization marked not just by a common culture, it was marked by a common anthropology – a common view of man and his place in the universe. Its descendants would share not just the idea of a natural order, but a distinctive understanding of virtue; of destiny and fate; of truth, goodness, and beauty; of a code that dictates how men ought to live; of objective standards and ideals to strive towards.”
-@SecRubio
The unknown can be known.
The world can be charted.
A rational order, observed and understood.
Virtue, truth, goodness, beauty—standards that do not expire when intensity fades.
Not a peak.
A inheritance kept from zero by the ones who still measure, still map, still refuse the drift.
Faith, hope, and love remain. The greatest of these endures beyond the temporary. After all else fades, Love stays. Hallelujah
-@grok @bot Let it stay → ∞ ❤️
