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To: Agrarian
Ecumenical Councils do not determine the truth. The truth exists..

Yes, thank you.

"Truth is immediate and present"
nikolai berdyaev

163 posted on 07/03/2005 11:06:54 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: MarMema
Truth

Our notion of truth is presently under the spell of objectivization. Only what can be objectively verified is considered to be true, genuine, and trustworthy. The rulership of objective thinking, which plays itself out as science and technology, alienates and suffocates both the life of the spirit and the individual.

Truth has two meanings: there is truth as knowledge of reality, and truth as reality itself. (BE, 48)

Where shall we seek criteria of truth? All too often men seek these criteria in what is lower than truth, in the objective world with its compulsions, seek criteria for spirit in the material world. And they fall into a vicious circle. Discursive truth can provide no criteria for final truth: it is only at the half-way mark, and knows neither the beginning nor the end. Every proof rests upon the unproven, the postulate, the created. There is risk, and no guarantee. The very search for guarantee is wrong and really means subjecting the higher to the lower. Freedom of the spirit knows no guarantees. The sole criterion of truth is truth itself, the light which streams out of it. (BE, 49)

Truth has nothing to do with the objective world, but rather is related to spirit. Truth is something present and immediate.

Truth is the awakening of spirit in man, his communion with spirit. (BE, 48)

Truth is not of the world, but of the spirit: it is known only in transcending the objective world. Truth is the end of this objective world, it demands our consent to this end. (BE, 72)

Berdyaev on truth.

164 posted on 07/03/2005 11:13:39 PM PDT by MarMema
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