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Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It
what I definitely believe is that the great religions, all of them and the great mystical traditions of Buddhism and Taoism, and so on, have central truths that they hold in common, and that these are a kind of wisdom that are not appreciated, unless one is brought up in a tradition that helped one see
them. And our tradition is dead against seeing
... See moreUnHerd • Dr Iain McGilchrist: We Are Living in a Deluded World
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
This is the problem beneath other problems because if we can’t agree on what’s true, then we can’t navigate out of any of our problems.”
Steven Brill • The Death of Truth
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
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