Odin disguised as Satan tells the witch:
"'...that truth is a thing which bears as many shapes as there are minds which strive to see it.'" (p. 39)
Not exactly. Something that was completely different for everyone would not be truth. It would be entirely subjective with no objectivity.
Science has become our way to discern some measure of empirical objectivity although it cannot tell us everything. When a man is diagnosed with cancer, that is his objective medical condition but it does not tell us everything about him. Two men with the same diagnosis can be in very different mental/psychological/spiritual states.
When I was at University, a religious dogmatist proclaimed, "Truth is one. Error is manifold!" I replied, "Truth is one. Its expressions are manifold!" Those propositions are a classical Hegelian thesis and antithesis. We approach truth through syntheses. And at most we know only partial truths. "Truth is one" has a very different significance depending on who says it.
8 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Except Odin was a tricksy and treacherous "god," someone whom it would be foolish to trust.
And there are many errors in the world.
Ad astra! Sean
And many different facets of truth.
Kaor, Paul!
Some truths are absolutely one and single: such as the impossibility of 2+2 being anything but 4.
Ad astra! Sean
Some truths! But there is way more to it than that.
Kaor, Paul!
I don't believe in self-contradictory nonsense like "Everything is relative" or "Nothing is absolutely true."
Ad astra! Sean
And I don't, either!
I said in the post that we approach truth and see partial truths.
Kaor, Paul!
Good! But blather of that kind is all too popular these days.
Ad astra! Sean
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