Rationalization and the Family

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In Kafka's Trial, K. succeeds in proving to the Priest that the Doorkeeper who keeps the man from approaching the Law is no more than a simpleton. The Priest, however, objects. No one has the right to pass judgment on the Doorkeeper, for he serves the Law; to doubt his dignity is to doubt the Law itself. K. fights back: “I don't agree with that point of view…for if one accepts it, one must accept as true everything the Doorkeeper says. But you yourself have sufficiently proved how impossible it is to do that.” “No,” said the Priest, “it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.”

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