What is truth? Is it an absolute or an anthropocentrically constructed concept?
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Workshop # 23, What is Truth? Series 10,
This event begins at 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 am NY.
You will need to view the relevant podcast below on YouTube before joining the meeting in order to participate in the discussion.
https://youtu.be/vaB0kXhUDOk
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The workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email.
THIS WEEK: The concept of ‘truth’ has traditionally been regarded as an absolute, with the capacity to motivate action and determine right and wrong. But more recently, with different theories of ‘truth’, it has come to be thought of as an anthropocentrically constructed concept. Yet in a modern perspective, in a dialectic between value and cognition, is it that ‘truth’ may once again be able to evoke moral intent, both as an inherently incomplete concept offering opportunity, and as a mode of cognition that can support and sustain moral capacities? Reading, The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 2, Scn. iii.