What is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance of his time. For "truth" itself is an abstract noun, a camel, that is, of a logical cons
At the end of the second millennium, Christianity finds itself in profound crisis in the very place of its original dissemination, in Europe. It is a crisis caused by doubt of its
The natural-law theory on which we have been working during the past twenty-five years has stimulated many critical responses. We have restated the theory in various works, not alw
Truth is one of the central subjects in philosophy. It is also one of the largest. Truth has been a topic of discussion in its own right for thousands of years. Moreover, a huge va
The topic of truth in ethics can be divided into three main questions: Are moral judgments truth-apt? Are any moral judgments true? And, if some moral judgments are true, in virtue
Analytic philosophy has seen a resurgent interest in the possibility of explaining linguistic meaning in terms of truth, which many philosophers have seen as considerably more trac
In the mind of contemporary man, freedom appears to a large extent as the absolutely highest good, to which all other goods are subordinate. Court decisions consistently accord art
Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to kn
Aristotle explains truth as ‘saying of what is that it is and of what is not that it is not’. Yet while this appears simple and clear, it leaves a number of issues unaddressed. Is truth relative or absolute, in other words can something be true relative to one standard and false relative to anther? Are there degrees of truth? What makes a true saying true? One answer is facts, but then what about negative truths such as ‘There is no Santa Claus’. Is this made true by a negative fact? Questions such as these have led philosophers to develop different theories of truth: principally, correspondence, coherence, and pragmatic theories, according to which some statement S is true if, respectively, a) it corresponds to the facts, or b) it coheres with other statements, or c) it warrants acting upon it.