[523] And the decisive point on which everything which must be understood depends, is the unconditional character^a of the moral imperative^b itself, and this means that the foundation of ethics ^cALWAYS has in itself a religious dimension because the experience of the unconditional is always an experience for which we use the word "religious." I hope again, after what I said, that religious foundation does not mean

commandments by a tyrranical God, or church laws, church morals, or anything like that, but it means the dimension of the unconditional, which is implicit in the moral imperative whatever the content may be. Now I was a little bit repetitious in this hour, and intentionally so, because I know how difficult it is to mediate fundamental distinctions where there is less fundamental confusion all the time. But I hope that the sociologists and anthropologists who think they have CAUGHT you, when they show the relativism^d of the ethical contents, can be shown by their behavior with respect to TRUTH that they have not caught you at all, but that you can CATCH THEM [smiling], if you see what they actually are doing.