Luther’s letter cascaded into a pivotal event of the Reformation, the Diet of Worms (Jan 28 – May 25, 1521). Now in those days a Diet was less about losing weight and more about weighty decisions. Or to give to be more precise a Diet was "the general assembly of the estates of the former Holy Roman Empire". The Diet of Worms accused Luther of heresy. After deliberations, Luther was asked to recant. After spending the final night of the Diet praying and consulting with his friends, he did not withdraw.
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For Eck, Luther is confusing the truth with opinion. One finds truth by wrestling with and improving upon the accepted assemblage of political truth. What if every man 's conscious had equal weight, what would become of the society as they knew it. Remember Kant’s Deontology, Bentham and Mill’s Utilitarianism, and Nietzsche’s *Ubermensch* where still a few centuries away from being though. Luther’s declaration was a epochal break.
Yet, as Eck mentions, some before Luther had also claimed conscious as their guide. Why, then, was the difference between Luther’s defiance and those Eck listed? None of Eck’s examples where living in a time of technological refiguring. Technological development always stay abreast of culture, but there are times when technology utterly outruns culture. In these times those who understand what how to leverage technology have a marked advantage over those who struggle to come to grips with it. Often such groups are peripheral but in time come to show the adulterated nature of the