Objective Truth

Two of my favorite American Jewish intellectuals are those two geniuses, Dennis Prager and Mark Levin.

Both believe in God/ Both espouse that the Creator made the world and set up natural law to keep it running along smoothly.

Humans are born corrupt (Prager believes this but I don't know about Levin.) but have reason and free agency so human instincts are not strong enough or pervasive enough to regulate human behavior. For this reason, God gave us objective moral law to fill the gap, and each generation of children need to learn to be good and virtuous, lest society turn to crap.

Prager and Levin both believe in objective morality, objective truth that is accessible by inquisitive humans.

That these two geniuses champion that objective morality and objective truth exist and are accessible to searching humans also informs me that they are epistemological optimists.

As an ethical, ontological, and epistemological moderate, I am not as epistemologically optimistic as Prager and Levin, but I accept their views as true with a high degree of certainty.

Those that believe in objective truth and objective morality are not the same as fanatics--absolutists and totalists--liars, incorrect and vicious--that assert that they have all the answers and are always right, noble and beautiful, and that any that disagree with them or oppose them are to be crushed or wiped out by any means possible, fair or foul. 

The epistemological optimism of Prager and Levin is based on reasonableness, sensible prudence, tolerance, discourse, respect for differing opinions and tolerance of diversity of spoken and written opinions and stances on issues.

The absolutists are epistemological optimists, but their reasoning is phony, false, hostile, cruel, and domineering. All are to think as one without dissent, without exception. Those that fail to surrender to group think and utter surrender of the thinking self to the cause, these heretics will be forced to convert or be jailed, torture or die.