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Power and Authority

Catholic Stuff You Should Know

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The Metaphysics of Authority

The truth is our conformity to the reality of the thing outside of us that we conform to. A thing, we recognize it as good because it's good. We recognize it as beautiful because it's beautiful. But on the other hand, things are good and things exist because he thinks of them. So we're different than God, right? God is the Creator. And so going back to the Father, the Creator element that we've lost, we now think that we are the masters,. That we impose the meaning upon something. The technocratic order is where the human person most resembles God Because we can create things according to our idea of them.

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