The Intolerance of Tolerance by D. A. Carson

Author:D. A. Carson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Social Issues, Sociology, Christianity, Theology, Religious Studies, Education & Reference, Christian Living, Ethics, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2012-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Japanese are very adept at assessing what is required in a situation and acting accordingly. This is often misunderstood by Westerners as duplicity, but it is simply the way life must be lived where all is relative. Truth itself becomes merely a social construct. If everybody believes something to be true, or if the powers that be say that it is, then for the practical purposes of daily life, it is true. As the Japanese say, it's safe to cross against a red light if everyone does it together.'

In other words, Japan is a case study in which a kind of relativism opens up the door to a kind of social tyranny that massively discounts the significance of the individual and therefore squashes individualism. Miles argues that in this sort of culture, if there were, say, unambiguous and objective moral law to which individuals could appeal, there could be a critique of the unfettered deployment of social and political power. It is the absence of such objective standards that makes the oppressiveness of the culture possible.

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