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Book of the Week: Truth: A Guide

Monday July 30, 2007
Truth: A Guide
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Everyone is familiar with the concept of 'truth,' or at least they think they are. People use the word 'truth' quite a lot, but the history of philosophy is filled with contentious and unresolved debates over the very nature of truth, let alone whether truth is something that can even be attained. So does the average person really understand what they are talking about, or are philosophers making much ado about nothing? If truth really is important to us, we should care enough learn more.

 

Book of the Week: Truth: A Guide

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July 30, 2007 at 10:53 am
(1) JonJ says:

The fact that he doesn’t get into “Eastern” philosophy might be fortunate. Writers who don’t really know anything about the subject but feel called upon to venture into it anyway make terrible blunders, such as the Christian “experts” who confidently explain how enormously superior Christianity is to Buddhism and other “Eastern” stuff and only succeed in showing how little they understand about it.

July 30, 2007 at 2:41 pm
(2) BlackSun says:

A fantastic book. Highly recommended.

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