Pragmatic Fashions Quotes

“Lay siege to the truth, only as animal exploration and fancy may do so, first from one quarter and then from another, expecting the reality to be not simpler than my experience of it, but far more extensive and complex.”
― John J. Stuhr, Pragmatic Fashions: Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd

“But we all know that each generation has its own test, the contemporaneous and current standard by which alone it can adequately judge of its own moral achievements, and that it may not legitimately use a previous and less vigorous test. The advanced test must indeed include that which has already been attained; but if it includes no more, we shall fail to go forward, thinking complacently that we have “arrived” when in reality we have not yet started. To attain individual morality in an age demanding social morality, to pride one’s self on the results of personal effort when the time demands social adjustment, is utterly to fail to apprehend the situation.”
― John J. Stuhr, Pragmatic Fashions: Pluralism, Democracy, Relativism, and the Absurd