Writing deliberately in a nontechnical style so as to make his
book accessible to readers who are not professional philosophers,
Michael Gelven here offers an extended meditative essay on the
nature and meaning of truth. He approaches this subject directly,
rather than through a critique of what others have said about it,
and takes off from the realization that truth has a wider meaning
than that which can be found in the analysis of true sentences,
which is the focus of traditional epistemology.
Pursuing philosophical inquiry as a voyage of discovery, the
book begins with ordinary questions about the worth and meaning of
truth. A fundamental distinction is drawn between the "true" (as in
a true proposition) and "truth" as essence, that which we confront
as the ultimate terminus of our questioning--for example, between
the true definition of mother as a female parent and truth as what
we understand being a mother to mean, as one who sacrifices her own
interests and safety for her child. The analysis then proceeds to
examine the four ways in which we confront truth--through
affirmation, acceptance, acknowledgment, and submission--and the
existential modes of experience in which these confrontations are
embodied: pleasure, fate, guilt, and beauty. Each of these four
confrontations has consequences for how we understand the world in
which we dwell. Thus the book concludes with interpretation of the
world as our home, our history, our tribunal, and ultimately that
which lures or beckons us to confront ourselves.
Plato, Kant, and Heidegger are the primary sources of
philosophical inspiration for Gelven, but he eschews textual
exegesis and academic debate in favor of engaging the reader as
co-explorer in the discovery of what it means for each of us to be
in truth.
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