Humanities, Philosophy & Other Things

President John Taylor declared: “. . .our religion, . . embraces every principle of truth and intelligence pertaining to us as moral, intellectual beings, pertaining to this world and the world that is to come. We are open to truth of every kind, no matter whence it comes, where it originates, or who believes it. . . . A man in search of truth has no peculiar system to sustain, no peculiar dogma to defend or theory to uphold; he embraces all truth, and that truth, like the sun in the firmament, shines forth and spreads its effulgent rays over all creation, and if men will divest themselves of bias and prejudice, and prayerfully and conscientiously search after truth, they will find it wherever they turn their attention .” (Taylor 1944, pp. 93-94; Journal of Discourses: 16, pp. 369-370) “The doctrine of the Latter-day Saints is truth....Now, sir, you may think that it is a broad assertion that it is truth; but sir, the first and fundamental pr...

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Three Shrines: Mantic, Sophic, and Sophistic Stephen D. Ricks, Donald W. Parry, Hugh Nibley, Ancient State: The Rulers and the Ruled ( 1991)  Three Shrines: Mantic, Sophic, and Sophistic I. The Mantic Substratum In his recent study of the gods of the Greeks, Professor Kerenyi compares the classical scholar thumbing through his notes and handbooks in search of an outworn creed with Sir George Gray, who long ago had joined in the feasts and dances of the Maoris and learned their language and legends in order to pluck the heart out of their mystery. 1 The comparison is too sanguine. As long ago as the fourth century, Synesius could report as a quaint oddity the presence in the Aegean islands of peasants who still believed in the Cyclops 2 —but they have long since passed away. No living informant can satisfy the modern scholar's craving for a firsthand introduction to the gods of Greece, and if the investigator goes to the written sourc...