‘The hours have lost their clock’ part 2
by Brian Coman A REFLECTION ON THE MODERN POLITICAL ORDER IN THE WEST PART TWO OF TWO PARTS (You can read Part One here) In the first part of this extended essay, I proposed that a fully secular state could survive in the long term only if it had access to some objective notion of truth. A subjective notion of truth, I argued, must inevitably lead us back to the chaotic, Hobbesian “state of nature”. Historically, both in the Christian West and in most other great civilisations, such an objective notion of truth was delivered by religious belief. Indeed, it…