Cornel West

is the truth, the fleshification, the concretization of truth, and that is in the form of a love that has the capacity to transform who we are. So I'll make a radical distinction between love of power versus power of truth. But the truth itself, capital T, none of us have access to. We look through a... that lends darkly. So we have to have a humility.

is the truth, the fleshification, the concretization of truth, and that is in the form of a love that has the capacity to transform who we are. So I'll make a radical distinction between love of power versus power of truth. But the truth itself, capital T, none of us have access to. We look through a... that lends darkly. So we have to have a humility.

The way to truth requires humility, maturity, but endless quest for truth, making sense of the world and hooking up with reality. So you can imagine, we could have a whole seminar on that question, what is truth? But that's just the beginning of an answer, my dear brother.

The way to truth requires humility, maturity, but endless quest for truth, making sense of the world and hooking up with reality. So you can imagine, we could have a whole seminar on that question, what is truth? But that's just the beginning of an answer, my dear brother.

Oh, oh, absolutely. Because they believe that that relativistic claim itself is true.

Oh, oh, absolutely. Because they believe that that relativistic claim itself is true.

And you tell them when they die, their death is itself a reality. That is true. There's coming a time when they die. That's a fundamental truth they cannot deny. So in that sense, there's a contradiction for them to be relativistic. Contextual is different than relativistic because we all have a context. That's why we are fallen and fallible.

And you tell them when they die, their death is itself a reality. That is true. There's coming a time when they die. That's a fundamental truth they cannot deny. So in that sense, there's a contradiction for them to be relativistic. Contextual is different than relativistic because we all have a context. That's why we are fallen and fallible.

And that's why we're crack vessels trying to love our crooked neighbors with our crooked hearts. But the humility and the maturity is crucial. And that's what I think Ravi and I... Always stress humility, maturity, fallibility, openness, and might never makes right, even though might is always seemingly in the driver's seat.

And that's why we're crack vessels trying to love our crooked neighbors with our crooked hearts. But the humility and the maturity is crucial. And that's what I think Ravi and I... Always stress humility, maturity, fallibility, openness, and might never makes right, even though might is always seemingly in the driver's seat.

No, I mean, unfortunately, it isn't what it ought to be, my brother, that every university in any historical moment has its own forms of orthodoxy and dogmatism. And you can have a dogmatism of the right, a dogmatism of the center, a dogmatism of the left. Robbie and I are committed to Socratic energy. We don't believe in safe spaces in universities.

No, I mean, unfortunately, it isn't what it ought to be, my brother, that every university in any historical moment has its own forms of orthodoxy and dogmatism. And you can have a dogmatism of the right, a dogmatism of the center, a dogmatism of the left. Robbie and I are committed to Socratic energy. We don't believe in safe spaces in universities.

When you enter a space, you ought to be unsettled and unnerved and unearthed. You ought to be willing to be critical and self-critical, just like when you have a conversation with the other brothers and sisters. They need to be unsettled and they need to unsettle you. Mediate it with respect, though. Mediate it with respect. And we don't have that.

When you enter a space, you ought to be unsettled and unnerved and unearthed. You ought to be willing to be critical and self-critical, just like when you have a conversation with the other brothers and sisters. They need to be unsettled and they need to unsettle you. Mediate it with respect, though. Mediate it with respect. And we don't have that.

Unfortunately, the way we ought in our universities, as you know, I'm in the situation. I got pushed out of Harvard myself because of my commitment to the Palestinian cause, not because I'm anti-Semitic. I love my Jewish brothers and sisters. But as a Christian, I want a Palestinian baby to have the exact value as any other baby, Israeli, black, white, red, whatever.

Unfortunately, the way we ought in our universities, as you know, I'm in the situation. I got pushed out of Harvard myself because of my commitment to the Palestinian cause, not because I'm anti-Semitic. I love my Jewish brothers and sisters. But as a Christian, I want a Palestinian baby to have the exact value as any other baby, Israeli, black, white, red, whatever.

Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world, red or yellow, black or white. They are precious in his sight. I believe that literally. And therefore, I don't want any kind of orthodoxy of a left, right or whatever. We want Socratic action mediated with respect. But then as Christians, you know, we got something that the world believes is foolish and absurd.

Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world, red or yellow, black or white. They are precious in his sight. I believe that literally. And therefore, I don't want any kind of orthodoxy of a left, right or whatever. We want Socratic action mediated with respect. But then as Christians, you know, we got something that the world believes is foolish and absurd.

We're going to love everybody, beginning especially with the least of these. That's what the biblical text says to me. And I believe it.

We're going to love everybody, beginning especially with the least of these. That's what the biblical text says to me. And I believe it.