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There, they converged all their activities and ideas on God and knowledge both of the world and of

Christianity. After this point, entering in the modern world, we discover a rupture between the different
aspects of life and reality, particularly observable in the sciences; we notice that, strictly speaking, that once
unifying principle God, man or the world has disappeared. Yes, it may be true that in some sense the
idea of truth served as a uniting principle, but I argue that it only did so up to a certain point in time.
Because truth, as they called it, was later on relativized and subjectivized; and thus creating a pool of
idiosyncratic ideas of what truth was, is and will be, and cutting that chain of doctrinal and cultural unity that
once held our ancestors.

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