Like Medieval Theologians We Had A Philosophy That Explained Everything To Us In Advance, And Everything That Did Not Fit Could Be Readily Identified As A Fraud Or A Lie Or An Illusion... The Perniciousness Of The Anti-communist Ideology Of The Truman Doctrine Arises Not From Any Patent Falsehood But From Its Distortion And Simplification Of Reality, From Its Universalization And Its Elevation To The Status Of A Revealed Truth.

-J. William Fulbright

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Like Medieval Theologians We Had A Philosophy

J. William Fulbright

Like Medieval Theologians We Had A Philosophy That Explained Everything To Us In Advance, And Everything That Did Not Fit Could Be Readily Identified As A Fraud Or A Lie Or An Illusion... The Perniciousness Of The Anti-communist Ideology Of The Truman Doctrine Arises Not From Any Patent Falsehood But From Its Distortion And Simplification Of Reality, From Its Universalization And Its Elevation To The Status Of A Revealed Truth.

Topic

Lying

Philosophy

Reality

We Would Be Deliberately Violating The Fundamental Obligations We Assumed In The Act Of Bogota Establishing The Organization Of American States.

Organization

Would Be

Fundamentals