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Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
“Your Truth” doesn’t exist.
“Truth? What is that?” — it’s the rhetorical question Pontius Pilate posed to Jesus in the Gospel of John.
Pilate’s world-weary cynicism suggested that truth is slippery and subjective, impossible to pin down. His question should resonate with modern audiences — in our current grappling with the nature of reality, facts, a
... See moreOur special task in this book is to single out the place of truth in leading a wise life, the sense that truth must have if we are to be wise, today, in our postmodern condition.
John D. Caputo • Truth: Philosophy in Transit
This pragmatist talk about truths in the plural, about their utility and satisfactoriness, about the success with which they 'work,' etc., suggests to the typical intellectualist mind a sort of coarse lame second-rate makeshift article of truth. Such truths are not real truth. Such tests are merely subjective. As against this, objective truth must
... See moreWilliam James • The Collected Works of William James
Now a thing of this world, truth falls into the hands of the individual; and without a belief in an eternal realm beyond the individual, there can be no ideals.
the critic • The death of Ideals
“None of us actually lives as though there were no truth. Our problem is more with the notion of a single, unchanging truth.
The word 'true' suggest a relationship between things: being true to someone or something, truth as loyalty, or something that fits, as two surfaces may be said to be 'true.' It is related to 'trust,' and is fundamentally a ma... See more
The word 'true' suggest a relationship between things: being true to someone or something, truth as loyalty, or something that fits, as two surfaces may be said to be 'true.' It is related to 'trust,' and is fundamentally a ma... See more