1. Truth and Philosophical Practice.
- Author
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WOLF, DAVID M.
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TRUTH , *POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy) , *TRUTHFULNESS & falsehood , *RELATIVITY , *BELIEF & doubt - Abstract
Truth is a troubled concept in the public consciousness after a century of modern and postmodern controversies. Cognitive relativism has been joined by postmodernism in which a new skepticism attends all systems of belief and gives rise to social harms. Philosophic practitioners can mitigate or help alleviate these conditions and problems if they develop the distinction between moral truth and factual truth and, along the way, reassert the primacy of reason against the postmodernist confusions and recent tendencies in society to conceal what's real from entire populations. Five specific tasks proposed for philosophic practitioners can serve these purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2018