Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It

What is truth? The traditional answer is that truth is a correspondence between what’s thought or said and a reality that exists independently of what’s thought or said.

truth as the light in which all of life is bathed, which ultimately leads us back to God, fades into

Josef Pieper, a German Catholic philosopher, said many years ago that “the natural habitat for truth is in interpersonal relationships,” whereas we have made truth an idea on paper. There are ways of living and relating that are honest and sustainable and fair, and there are utterly dishonest ways of living and relating to life. This is our real, d

The short answer is that once rationality takes over, a profound inversion takes place: truth ceases to be a claim made upon us, and becomes a claim we make on behalf of our assertions.