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, s…
