Fulton Sheen on false liberties and broad-mindedness: Liberty of indifference is so called because it is indifferent to truth, morality, justice, and the social good. As such it has dominated the world for several centuries, invariably defining itself as the right of the individual to say, do, or think anything he pleases. Assuming that there is no absolute standard of right and wrong , it sets up the individual as the supreme authority and regards all regulation of liberty as unwarranted and unjustified restriction. Evidently such a view understands liberty in terms of the physical rather than the moral, or as an absence of constraint rather than as a right to choose the good. We are all familiar with its various false manifestations in philosophy, religion, education, politics, and economics. In philosophy, it contended that there was no such thing as Truth with a capital T; truth is purely ambulatory – we make it as we go. Truth is merely a point of view for each man is his own measure of what is true and what is good. Naturally, such a system produces as many philosophies as there are heads. In order that the world might be made safe for so many conflicting points of view, broad-mindedness was cultivated as the most desirable of all virtues. ~ Fulton J. Sheen: Freedom Under God, False Liberties (1940/2013) page 9.
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