youtube-qGuNpn7m_g4 movies archiveteam_youtube Davis M.J. Aurini 2013-12-14 https://archive.org/details/youtube-qGuNpn7m_g4<br /><br />Downloaded from a link at https://web.archive.org/web/20150824025049/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGuNpn7m_g4 - sadly, this video by Aurini doesn't seem to be available at those links anymore.<br /><br />This video -- file "videoplayback.mp4" -- was uploaded in Dec 14, 2013, and it had 6,044 views, 296 likes, and 24 dislikes. In 2015-08-24, Aurini had 11,952 subscribers.<br /><br />Partial transcript:<br />"We live in an age of materialistic philosophy. Now materialism is fine all on its own, but the problem is it forgot where it came from. It assumes a complete understanding of the nature of reality and our existence here on the Earth. But when you start to scratch the surface of materialism you discover a paradox. This is a paradox that religions have tried to encapsulate throughout the eras. Dauism: that which can be written down is not the true dau. Christianity: If you want to save your life give up your life and if you try and hold on to your life you will lose it. This is a contradiction that we find not just in philosophy, not just in our own lives, but in the very foundational premises of the scientific method, of mathematics itself that goes to undermine this materialism. But this materialistic philosophy sees these explanations of its limitations and assumes them to be nonsense because they don't fit in to the materialistic worldview. Now this of course has very dire and very extreme political implications, but before we get to that we need to discuss the hierarchy of truth. Truth comes in three basic levels: the absolute truth, the objective truth, and the relative truth. The relative truth is the easiest one for us to understand. And of course materialism makes fun of it, more than it should. The relative truth is what's true for you. How things make you feel, your preferences, your tastes, the reality of the moment, how you respond to things. That's the- the relative truth. And the problem is if you descend to the level of the relative truth you become a response to your environment, you become nothing more than an object, you are objectified for not having any higher truth withinside of you. The next level is objective truth. This is where we find materialism. This is the scientific method. This is two plus two equals four. These are facts and figures, the world that we can see and measure out there. These are laws, these are things written down in books. This is the objective truth, and unfortunately this is where most people stop nowadays. We have a lot- a lot of stuff clinging onto the objective truth but not going any higher. The absolute truth is the reality underlying everything else, and you can't discover it using the methods of objective truth. It- It's the firmament that is necessary for anything else to exist. And it is a- a moral decision, uh- a leap of faith to believe in the absolute truth. The problem is, the reason you- you need to make this leap of faith is because if you don't, it doesn't matter how strongly you believe in the objective truth, eventually it crumbles into the relative truth and you become nothing more than an object. Uh- This is the fundamental debate going on in politics for the past 300 years and we are seeing the long-term effects of it. But it would help if I actually started putting the wheels on the road. Let's bring this into everyday human experiences."<br /><br />YouTube video ID:<br />qGuNpn7m_g4 eng Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6.4 from YouTube; Davis M.J. Aurini; Davis Aurini; Political Theory and the Hierarchy of Truth; philosophy; absolute truth; relative truth; objective truth; subjective truth; truth; politics leedusmcclein@gmail.com 2020-05-27 04:28:44 2020-05-27 04:28:44 [curator]validator@archive.org[/curator][date]20200527043651[/date][comment]checked for malware[/comment] archiveteam true