Really? I’m not sure much has remained constant at all. My response would be that we don’t actually have a meaningful choice about keeping laws of some kind in existence, and I don’t know what “ancient scholastic obsessions” he could mean if not religious ones. E.g, most interpretations of Plato or Aristotle at least had a religious aspect. (And even so, we probably should re-examine academic traditions from time to time.)
Really? I’m not sure much has remained constant at all. My response would be that we don’t actually have a meaningful choice about keeping laws of some kind in existence, and I don’t know what “ancient scholastic obsessions” he could mean if not religious ones. E.g, most interpretations of Plato or Aristotle at least had a religious aspect. (And even so, we probably should re-examine academic traditions from time to time.)