Nornagest comments on 2012 Survey Results - Less Wrong

80 Post author: Yvain 07 December 2012 09:04PM

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Comment author: Nornagest 10 December 2012 10:10:56AM *  3 points [-]

Recall one of their favourite memes is fighting Lies and the search for Truth, a more Christian notion could not be found.

I'm not an expert on this by any means, but I always thought of that as a Christian syncretion of a Greek preoccupation. A lot of the more philosophical side of the historical Christian worldview got its start that way, and Aquinas in particular had a lot of Aristotle in him.

Comment author: [deleted] 10 December 2012 04:02:32PM *  2 points [-]

Yes I think this is correct, up voted. What I wanted to emphasize is that the received these particular memes almost certainly via Christianity, even if the religion wasn't their origin. It is evidence in favor of them carrying other universalist assumptions and values from the same source.