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Leaving Our Universe(s)

Strauss talks about “the difficulty [for people] of standing outside their own symbolic universes, of totally transcending them.” (Strauss 1993 p. 155) I have to agree that this is a monumental task, but I wonder if it is really necessary to undertake this task fully, or if it would be equally well to merely make ourselves fully aware of our own symbolic universes and recognize where they differ from the symbolic universes of others.

By David

David is the father of 8 children. When he's not busy with that full time occupation he works as a technology professional. He enjoys discussing big issues with informed people, cooking, gardening, vexillology (flag design), and tinkering.