Is our attitude to learning changing?

Is our attitude to learning changing?

Our attitude to learning is changing. We're starting to doubt discovered knowledge, and say all that matters is revealed knowledge. Those are the two differences. The rationalism and superstition on the one hand can suggest that you can have a revealed text which tells you what the truth is. It can be a Bible, it can be a Qur'an, it can be a book by Paul Coelho, or however he pronounces himself, it can be any sort of text which apparently contains truth. And it is the revealed truth, and you have to believe it. This attitude to learning is what the Greeks fought against. The Greek idea of life was that anybody who said that they knew what happened after you're dead was either a liar or an idiot. Because there was no book that can tell you what happens after you're dead except one written by a dead person, and dead people don't write. We know that. All you've got to do is go and look at a lot of dead people. They're not writing. They just aren't. There aren't ghosts. There aren't, you know, all this nonsense. Not because the world is more limited, but because the world is less limited.