The Language of Skepticism and Relativism

In the early modern period, figures like Herbert of Sherbury were almost banned from any sort of curricula because he's odd. He had slightly bonkers view that all religions were fundamentally right and they're all the same. The Enlightenment picked up on this and said, look, look, there's loads of old rubbish everywhere. It's all rubbish. Get rid of it. And that's what I find so fascinating about your book. It's about reception as much as anything. We need to learn, which means we need to take seriously these other sort of human conventional accounts. That kind of curiosity is very sad. It's been lacking. So when you see other traditions approaching those same