The Importance of Defending Your Views

John Stuart Mill talks about the importance of having your views challenged by somebody who actually believes the opposite of you. For Hegel that's an important part again of modernity that we don't claim just infallibility like that. We do take justification into being able to defend your views seriously and that's why in the end you all have to be drawn into this dialogue and discussion. I can see how Hegel's approach with something like freedom would be very illuminating but if you take another example Take homeopathy where there's this internal explanation that the more dilute a substance is the more effective it is as a drug. Now that would be considered absurd from scientific principles but within the homeopathic community that's