Education for democracy, therefore, should encourage the habit of sustained inquiry and the arts of sincere persuasion, and above all should confirm and celebrate faith in the priority and
ultimate givenness of truth and goodness, in which the moral enterprise is grounded.
«In a sense, all explanation must end in an
ultimate arbitrariness» (Whitehead, Science 92), whether it is the
givenness of Being, or the
givenness of God and of his decisions, or the
givenness of creativity: all explanation must come to an end, as Wittgenstein says.