Episodes
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Aren’t There Truths I Can Only Know Because of My Lived Experience?
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Question about how to reconcile the fact that there are things one can only know through experience with the idea that truth can be known apart from a person’s experiences.
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“Woke” culture says, “Only I can know this because of my lived experience,” which seems to contradict the idea that truth can be known apart from those experiences, but I also find myself experiencing things and learning things as a parent that I couldn’t have otherwise known, so how do we reconcile this with the idea of objective, publicly accessible truth?
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