Truth Is Real and Philosophers Must Return Their Attention to It

Le mot vérité, au sens le plus large, signifie syntoniser, être à l'unisson du réel. Avoir un contact authentique avec le vrai et avec le bien et avec le beau. Non ? Cela implique que nous pouvons également être déconnectés du réel. Nous pouvons être perdus ou embrouillés, ou nos évaluations peuvent être fausses. Nous pouvons être déconnectés du vr

what the mind seeks in attempting to discover the truth is a kind of delight, a kind of fulfillment that can supersede the momentary disappointments or frustrations that the search for truth brings.

Plato is convinced that there is “the Good,” and that its nature can be ascertained; when people disagree about it, one, at least, is making an intellectual error, just as much as if the disagreement were a scientific one on some matter of fact.

To summarize: The realist says that we can know the world beyond our perceptions, and that truth consists of thinking and saying things that correspond with the state of that world. The idealist says that our perceptions are the only things we truly know, and therefore that truth cannot be a correspondence. That’s the traditional debate between rea