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constructed by an absolute mind ... that would speak that infinite concentration of events”4
Beauty? Truth? Freedom?
Burke believes in Absolute Truth5. Is there one Absolute Truth or a multiplicity of absolute truths? Is there exercise of free will in that which is absolute? If there is One absolute, there is repression. Plato and Burke: the ideal state is governed by the inheritance of knowledge and wisdom. Templates for anti- democratic and constrained liberties. Then, the notion of is concatenated to its marginal existence: the chains of the Absolute.
Can liberty be attained in Multiplicity? If there is Multiplicity of absolutes: there is freedom.
Milton and Burke: Liberty versus
For Milton, Truth is Multiplicity. The ideal state revolves around uncensorship. Uncersorship is a multiplicity of truths6.
4 Borges, Jorge Luis. Collected Fictions. Trans. Andrew Hurley. “The Writing of the God”. NY, USA: The Penguin Group. Viking. 1998
5 Burke is antagonistic of Dr. Price for “he is interested in setting up new churches and is “so perfectly indifferent concerning the doctrine....it is not for the diffusion of truth, but for the spreading of contradiction...” (95)
6 Each person is able to perceive, through his own morality, that which is true, a god-given right.
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