"We desire to give voice to our opinions, to try to elevate them to the status of knowledge. Relativism denies that desire. What it does instead is homogenize all desires. All desires and values are equal precisely insofar as none is ultimately defensible. Such equality is unacceptable, unlivable, a denial of what is patently true about human beings. It is simply not the case that, when questioned hard, persons A or B are willing to declare that their values are no more defensible than their opponents'. To declare that this is the case, is to defy the phenomena of ordinary life."
--David Roochnik,
The Tragedy of Reason: Towards a Platonic Conception of Logos
(Routledge 1991)
