but truth that makes praxis possible. Political activity is just and promotes freedom when it serves a complex of values and rights that reason makes known to us. The explicit skepticism of relativistic and positivistic theories is countered here by a basic confidence in the ability of human reason to make truth known.2 The essential character of these two positions can be seen very clearly in the trial of Jesus, when Pilate asks the Savior; “What is truth?” (John 18:38). One very prominent representative