Кому не нравится, не обязан читать, тем более комментировать.Ну, я поехала.Довольно часто приходится слышать, что, мол, истины нет, или все врут и подобное. Откуда это идет? Похоже, идет это от начавшегося в к. XVIII века процесса индивидуализации и связанного с ней релативизма. При несомненных достоинствах индивидуализма, о которых нет нужды говорить, т.к. они и так всем понятны, укажем на обратную сторону медали:  современная свобода получилась в результате потери старого морального горизонта (Ч. Тейлор): People used to see themselves as part of a larger order. In some cases, this was a cosmic order, a "great chain of Being," in which humans figured in their proper place along with angels, heavenly bodies, and our fellow earthly creatures. This hierarchical order in the universe was reflected in the hierarchies of human society. People were often locked into a given place, a role and station that was properly theirs and from which it was almost unthinkable to deviate. Modern freedom came about through the discrediting of such orders. But at the same time as they restricted us, these orders gave meaning to the world and to the activities of social life. The things that surround us were not just potential raw materials or instruments for our projects, but they had the significance given them by their place in the chain of being. The eagle was not just another bird, but the king of a whole domain of animal life. By the same token, the rituals and norms of society had more than merely instrumental significance. The discrediting of these orders has been called the "disenchantment" of the world. With it, things lost some of their magic. People no longer have a sense of a higher purpose, of something worth dying for. Alexis de Tocqueville sometimes talked like this in the last century, referring to the "petits et vulgaires plaisirs" that people tend to seek in the democratic age. (конец цитаты)