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Date: 5/15/2017 1:11:00 PM
From Authorid: 22721
In my opinion, truth is always influnced personal interpretation. Truth can always vary, unless it's an obviousious fact. As in, where a skunk sprays you from.  |
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Date: 5/15/2017 1:18:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 56297
That's what I think as well. There are things that established scientific fact; "If you freeze water, it turns to ice." are objective, of course. However, things such as the nature of God and the Universe don't have a single objective truth (at least, that's my belief).  |
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Date: 5/21/2017 5:41:00 PM
From Authorid: 23963
Great question and very thought provoking. I guess this could be interpreted in so many ways since I believe everyone has their own version of "Truth" and what it means to them. I will have to think about this more and may add some more thoughts.  |
Date: 9/11/2017 10:22:00 PM
From Authorid: 61013
Truth is typically subjective. Like you said God and Politics is typically subjective whereas history is objective.  |
Date: 1/23/2019 11:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 45551
I copied and pasted this cause it was easier, but this is the answer you are looking for. Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them, and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality. Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not reality at all, for he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the manufactured reality that is the shadows seen by the prisoners. The inmates of this place do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no better life. The prisoners manage to break their bonds one day, and discover that their reality was not what they thought it was. They discovered the sun, which Plato uses as an analogy for the fire that man cannot see behind. Like the fire that cast light on the walls of the cave, the human condition is forever bound to the impressions that are received through the senses. Even if these interpretations (or, in Kantian terminology, intuitions) are an absurd misrepresentation of reality, we cannot somehow break free from the bonds of our human condition—we cannot free ourselves from phenomenal state just as the prisoners could not free themselves from their chains. If, however, we were to miraculously escape our bondage, we would find a world that we could not understand—the sun is incomprehensible for someone who has never seen it. In other words, we would encounter another "realm", a place incomprehensible because, theoretically, it is the source of a higher reality than the one we have always known; it is the realm of pure Form, pure fact.[1]  |
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Date: 1/23/2019 11:07:00 PM
From Authorid: 45551
I copied and pasted this cause it was easier, but this is the answer you are looking for. Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them, and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality. Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not reality at all, for he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the manufactured reality that is the shadows seen by the prisoners. The inmates of this place do not even desire to leave their prison, for they know no better life. The prisoners manage to break their bonds one day, and discover that their reality was not what they thought it was. They discovered the sun, which Plato uses as an analogy for the fire that man cannot see behind. Like the fire that cast light on the walls of the cave, the human condition is forever bound to the impressions that are received through the senses. Even if these interpretations (or, in Kantian terminology, intuitions) are an absurd misrepresentation of reality, we cannot somehow break free from the bonds of our human condition—we cannot free ourselves from phenomenal state just as the prisoners could not free themselves from their chains. If, however, we were to miraculously escape our bondage, we would find a world that we could not understand—the sun is incomprehensible for someone who has never seen it. In other words, we would encounter another "realm", a place incomprehensible because, theoretically, it is the source of a higher reality than the one we have always known; it is the realm of pure Form, pure fact.[1] |
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