Truth
What is the truth? Commonly the term "truth" we tend to show different qualities and realities that are often linked to concepts such as honesty, faith and sincerity.
Like many concepts and ideas, however, the truth is usually a subjective concept, that is dependent on the feelings and ideas of each individual.
What often corresponds to "truth" for someone may be false to another. For this reason, for years, philosophers have attempted to establish a common level or basis for determining what is the truth, so as to reach that objective and not subjective. Unfortunately, especially in our days that are full of corruption, objective truth is something even harder to find.
Propositions, statements, ideas, beliefs and judgments are likely to be true or false. They are therefore often called "the foundations of truth."
Tecnical knowledges of the currents of the philosofical thoughts took and translated from ita wikipedia.
"The theories that follow all have in common the assumption that truth is a concept and securely for knowledge (which is most clear in the following):
- The Correspondence theory sees truth as correspondence with reality. Thus, a statement is true only when it expresses the present state of things in the world.
- The theory of coherence sees truth as coherence within a certain set of statements or, more often, of beliefs. For example, the conviction of a certain person is true only when it is consistent with all (or most) of his other convictions.
- The theory of consent argues that truth is what sets agree (or will in the near future) the views of certain specific groups, such scholars are skilled in a certain range.
- Pragmatism does the truth according to the usefulness of the practical consequences of a certain idea. An idea is true, in other words, if - by the ideas and actions that we raise - can guide us smoothly from one experience to another.
- The social constructivism maintains that truth is constructed by social processes, and that it represents the struggle for power within a community."
Personally I believe that truth is something that the right way and with due frequency improve relations in our society where lying and hypocrisy reign supreme and are like a cancer in our world.
Inside me I always held that in deference to all those around me, I'd always been honest to use the truth as possible, since as a human being I know my limits and I can not set themselves something so immense as "to speak truth above all else, it would make me fall in total contradiction and hypocrisy. So the thing I value most is when people around me are sincere towards me (of course with the required education) because it is the greatest form of respect. In the past too many people have been false and hypocritical, and this has made them only for bad people.
I believe that truth is a great form of respect and something that did good or evil is to be proved always to become aware and act. The philosophical movement that I feel closest to me, therefore correspondence theory.
One of the greatest example is the search for absolute truth is also one of the most famous detective in the existing crime fiction: Sherlock Holmes. One of his most famous quotes is also one of my favorite were:
"When you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" n.d. Sherlock Holmes
This single sentence has a multitude of deep meanings. The fact that once ruled all that is impossible, whatever remains, even if it is absurd or bizarre that remains is "the truth" means that it is hidden behind every little corner of all our actions even when they cover and, however absurd, we must accept it and explain it. does not mean that behind every move we think there is something hidden but nevertheless we must be always very careful to detail detectors.
But sometimes it happens that the constant search for truth may lead to see evil everywhere and this leads to denial or a "witch hunt" that corrodes the soul and trust. So you always find an inner balance for this constant search.