Sept. 28, 2025 - Dennis Prager Show
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| All right, Gerald D. Lynch in Stewart, Florida, dear Mr. Prager, I just completed Jonathan Hates. | |
| The righteous mind, why good people are divided by politics and religion, focusing on his theme, that advancements in our psychological understanding of emotions strengthens the hypothesis that reasonslash morality are just manifestations of different cultures, relativistic interpretations to their emotions. | |
| How do you respond to this challenge to claims of universal truths? | |
| Does this make you feel that you might need to reassess your rational Bible project? | |
| Well, I'm obviously only responding to your question. | |
| I have not read Jonathan Hayde's book, but I really should, because it's quite widely read. | |
| So you're saying that his theme is that advancements in our psychological understanding of emotions strengthens the hypothesis that reason and morality are just manifestations of different cultures, relativistic interpretations of their emotions. | |
| Well, I again I'm not reacting to Jonathan Aid because I didn't read it, but I react to what you wrote and implying that it's his view. | |
| It's hard to think of a more depressing view than that everything is reducible to what is the term you put cultures, relativistic interpretations of emotions. | |
| Then why why why did he write a book? | |
| Would he does he think that his book only makes sense in a culture such as his own? | |
| It's this a real reductionism that has been that has taken place all of my lifetime. | |
| Everything is reducible. | |
| It's all everything is relative, everything is reducible to emotions, emotions are reducible to the firing of neurons in the brain. | |
| So there's really nothing real. | |
| There is no real. | |
| And that's that's what's called the postmodern mentality. | |
| Nothing is real. | |
| That's how you can say men give birth. | |
| Nothing is real. | |
| It's uh it's just not true. | |
| And uh it's hard for me to believe that that's what he says, but again, that's not what matters. | |
| What matters is you inferred that he said that, and you're asking me how how would I respond to it? | |
| Well, and that is everything is not reducible. | |
| Reason is universal. | |
| If reason were not universal, you would be right. | |
| I would have to reassess my entire rational Bible project. | |
| This is a very frightening development in modern in modern life. | |
| The dismissal of reason as non-universal. | |
| And so you get obviously the same thing. | |
| Ultimately, what you end up with is what the Oregon Education Department announced, that the idea that there is one right answer in math is white supremacist. | |
| Okay. | |
| I don't know why that's just not an insult to every non-white. | |
| Emotions are individual, but reason is universal. | |
| That is one of the few things that gives you hope. | |
| Is that we Can reason with one another. | |
| What is one of the directives to juries that it has to meet a standard that rational people would assent to everything is rooted in that. | |
| So The left will prevail if we demote reason. | |
| And the irony is that you would think as as a religious individual, I don't I don't ascribe so much importance to reason, but I do. | |
| What we need to make a good world is God and reason. | |
| God alone can lead to fanaticism. |
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