Truth: Philosophy in Transit

birth: the geography of their birthplace. Augustine was born in the Roman province of Numidia, modern-day Algeria, which is where Derrida happened to be born.

But I do believe that something is getting itself said in religious narratives, which are populated by fictive beings and are not to be judged by the standards of true assertions.

I am all for uttering true propositions, as many as possible. I am not arguing against the truth of propositions; I am arguing that truth cannot be confined to propositions.

democratic. The truth that is trying to become true in religion is the passionate search for the things we most care about, the restlessness of our heart in the midst of a mysterious world.

Truth is not what happens, but something going on in what happens. So, to think of truth as an ‘event’ is to think of something that is trying to happen in something. Truth is the process of trying to become-true.

That is why we started by saying that truth is on the go. It cannot be confined to a final and fixed form; it is self-transforming, in constant transit – a feature of which we are made acutely conscious by contemporary systems of transportation and information technology.

A repetition arises from the underlying truth that this play bears across generations, which keeps getting replayed and re-enacted in changing times and for ever-changing audiences.

Marx said that religion is the opium of the people, he had said that religion is the heart of a heartless world.

The history of Hamlet, the history of its performances, of so many interpretations of this enduring classic, is an example of repetition.