| Myshkin is a later, more riddling and more tragic figure of lost absolutes. |
| The value and rightness of knowledge are not empirical absolutes, and the benefit of truth does not fit everyone the same. |
| Good and evil are to be defined as absolutes on religious authority, admitting of neither critical judgement nor reduction. |
| As in the abortion debate, a little awareness of ethics will make us mistrustful of sound-bite-sized absolutes. |
| It's about a lawyer circa 70BC, familiar to Latin students more for his ablative absolutes than his crowd-pulling charisma. |
| I don't believe in absolutes but I do believe in an idea that is agreed as wrong within a society. |
