No, I'm not going to get into the Socratic ditch on this beautiful Halloween morning. But Mark Butterworth is. He polled a bevy of writers, editors and bloggers on that question, and the results are fascinating.
This humble blogger was one of Mark's poll-ees. Can you guess which answer is mine?
Bryan,
I deeply appreciated your answer. It came out quite beautiful, particularly in contrast to the more bloodless ones. It was very soulful, and just what I was looking for from the home team.
Loony toons!
No doubt which answer was yours, and it made good sense.
I thought Butterworth’s approach was weird, though. He does the “Socratic” thing, and then makes it clear that he’s not going to listen to any of the answers. His definition seems to make Truth=God, which is not a useful conflation. For a believer, that linkage leads to book-burning, as in: if it agrees with the Koran, it’s redundant; if it disagrees, it’s heretical. For an unbeliever, or even a believer who wants to examine things a bit more closely, that linkage is just absurd.
