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Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
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“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
Iain McGilchrist Quotes (Author of The Master and His Emissary)
“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 moreNow 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.