Relativism, or the lack of permanent references and their replacement by nothingness, is based on the fact that the truth doesn’t exist – and good and bad don’t either-, because everything is relative, and it flees from the truth like the plague. Therefore, it is essential to perfect lies through a new language. The denial of the existence of absolute truths, leads to the statement of relative truths, and this statement leads to the denial of the truth. Denying truth leaves us with falsehoods and lies. To such an extent that the right to lie is acknowledged and the right to tell the truth is denied. Lies are rights, and truths are crimes. Lies become a new fundamental right, because lies flatter, and the truth obliges.
PROGRAM
- • 19h00 – 19h05 : Presentation
- • 19h05 – 19h10 : Bishop Mr. Antal Spányi (Hungary): “Truth and Freedom”
- • 19h10 – 19h20 : Prof. László Márki (Hungary): “The truth as a response to relativism”
- • 19h20 – 19h30 : European Speaker. Prof. Ryszard Stocki (Poland): “The denial of the absolute truth in social, political and economic relations in our days “
- • 19h30 – 19h50 : Debate (Moderator Lóránt Lehrner)
- • 19h50 – 20h00 Conclusions by Ms. Katalin Novak and Mr. Jaime Mayor
SPEAKERS
Ms Katalin Novak is a government minister and Member of Parliament in Hungary, as well as vice president of the Fidesz party.
Mr. Jaime Mayor Oreja: President of One of Us Federation. Former Ministry of Interior of the Spanish Government. Former MEP from the EPP group at the European Parliament
Bishop Mr. Antal Spányi: On July 19, 1976, Antal Spányi was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Esztergom from Cardinal László Lékai. Pope John Paul II appointed him auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest and titular bishop of Tharros on February 13, 1998. On April 4, 2003, John Paul II appointed Antal Spányi Bishop of Székesfehérvár.
Prof. László Márki: Doctor of Sc. Hung. Acad. Sci., Budapest 1995 Affiliation: Alfred Renyi Mathematical Institute of the 1970– Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
Prof. Ryszard Stocki: is an organizational psychologist, educationalist and business consultant, who developed in his habilitation the first nosology of organizational pathologies. analogous to a clinical doctor’s diagnosis. in his more recent work, he offered the answer to the question of the amazing oversight i.e. why some companies are exceptionally productive.
Simultaneous translation in English, French, Hungarian and Spanish will be provided
RESUME by Jaime Mayor Oreja
Moral relativism and lies are the two faces of the same coin, which characterize the dominant trend. Relativism, that it is to say, the lack of permanent references and their replacement by nothingness, is based on the fact that the truth doesn’t exist — and good and bad don’t either —, because everything is relative, and it flees from the truth like the plague. Therefore, it is essential to perfect lies through a new language.
At the service of our comfort
Extreme relativism requires extreme lies, and for that reason, it is necessary to move away from the truth by disregarding, rejecting and even persecuting all the institutions tied to the truth. Just as telling the truth requires -as a general rule- courage, spreading lies demands submission and cowardice. Lies, by their own nature, are much more comfortable than the truth. Because lies are at the service of our comfort, and that it why they reside on the surface of the facts, and consequently they spread very easily. Saint Luke reminds us of a truth: “The people of this world are shrewder in dealing with their own kind than are the people of light.” The truth is never found on the surface. It is in the roots of the facts and realities that we experience and therefore we need to search for it and find it and suffer for it. It is not easy, it’s typically unpleasant and as a general rule, it is not done, persecuted by the dominant trend.
We have gone from the prestige of the truth to the resentment of it. There is a reverential fear of the dominant trend within us. The great English thinker and writer, Chesterton, when referring to heresy, said “heresy is a truth that has gone mad,” that had hypertrophied, and that has been overexaggerated. The author explained the craziness of virtues because the modern world is full of old Christian virtues which had gone mad. Doubt, which forms part of human nature, hypertrophied, it grew so much and so strongly that it invaded everything; and even transformed the nature of human dignity of the person. That is to say, relativism means heresy in this aspect.
Lies are rights
The professor Ignacio Sánchez-Cámara reminds us: “the denial of the existence of absolute truths, leads to the statement of relative truths, and this statement leads to the denial of the truth. Denying truth leaves us with falsehoods and lies. To such an extent that the right to lie is acknowledged and the right to tell the truth is denied. Lies are rights, and truths are crimes. Lies become a new fundamental right, because lies flatter, and the truth obliges.” Democracy is not vaccinated against lies. The natural place for lies is totalitarianism through propaganda, but there can still be a totalitarian democracy through the complacency of silence. Relativism has become one of the main players of our society to such an extent that it has transformed it, in all aspects. Its irruption has happened so violently that it is causing a realignment and readjustment in the social and political arena. The cultural debate we are going to have in the next decade concerns our fundamentals against relativism. Rémi Brague, our main cultural reference, reminds us that our first obligation is “to free European intelligence from a dominant trend.”
