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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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24 Jul 2005 05:18:42 AM |
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Truth |
The Truth Wars
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/24/books/review/24GOTTLIE.html?pagewanted=all
By ANTHONY GOTTLIEB
Published: July 24, 2005
''WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an
answer.'' Thus begins Francis Bacon's essay on truth, published in
1597. Bacon was referring to St. John's Gospel, in which Pilate wearily
tries to make sense of the Jewish high priest's complaints against
Jesus. Jesus is riddling and evasive in his answers to the charges, or
so it must have appeared to Pilate, and ends by saying: ''For this
cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth.
Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.'' On that note, Pilate
tosses out his rhetorical question and leaves to tell the Jews that he
can find no fault with Jesus.
TRUTH
A Guide.
By Simon Blackburn.
238 pp. Oxford University Press. $25.
TRUE TO LIFE
Why Truth Matters.
By Michael P. Lynch.
204 pp. A Bradford Book/ The MIT Press. Cloth, $27.95. Paper, $14.95.
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| User: "Tervicz" |
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| Title: Re: Truth |
24 Jul 2005 08:05:52 AM |
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By far truth is not a fixed thing. Truth is flexible, relative. What is
considered to be the truth can change over time as new facts are
discovered. There was once a time it was considered true that the world
was flat. Then it was found that it was not and the truth changed.
There may even be more than one truth. A four year old finds the gun of
his father exposed. He takes it and goes to play with it. In the end he
kills one of his friends as they play. It is true the four year-old
killed his friend by shooting him. It is also true the father killed
the friend by not keeping his gun away from his child who did not
understand the danger.
No one is forced to accept the truth of another and is allowed to make
up his own mind. Truth is never absolute for it is there in the
absolutes that extremism and hatred roam. Question truth and don't take
it too seriously.
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