"T Moore" wrote
> Dear John
>
> Thank you very much for your kind comments, which I genuinely
appreciate.
>
> > Yes I mentioned truth a few times because it's a
> > word that is lost these days a must be repeated.
>
> Truth has been devalued in recent years, but it still has some value,
> after those who's homes are always safe, have expressed their
> disingenuous horror, and marked the needless waste of more human lives,
> with a minute or two's silence, and promises of financial aid, that will
> be revised when the matter is no longer news worthy.
>
> Truth works for all sides, Christian and Atheists, Left and Right wing
> political views, black and white, racist and non-racist, even
Manchesters
> United and City. They all have truths their opponents like to ignore.
>
> You said truth is a word worth repeating. And so you should, for that
is
> the truth.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Tom
Have to strongly disagree here. Objective truth is something that
idealists
and right wingers in general do their best to bury. What of the
non-existent WMDs? But what is more im****tant is the concept of truth
itself and I give below a quote from Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit'
which
is worth reflecting upon. Whilst Marx and Engels superseded Hegel and
'turned him on his feet' so to speak they recognised his achievements in
philosophy and Lenin considered many parts of Hegel worth quoting in his
philosophical notebooks:-
-----
The more the ordinary mind takes the opposition between true and false to
be
fixed, the more is it accustomed to expect either agreement or
contradiction
with a given philosophical system, and only to see reason for the one or
the
other in any explanatory statement concerning such a system. It does not
conceive the diversity of philosophical systems as the progressive
evolution
of truth; rather, it sees only contradiction in that variety. The bud
disappears when the blossom breaks through, and we might say that the
former
is refuted by the latter; in the same way when the fruit comes, the
blossom
may be explained to be a false form of the plant’s existence, for the
fruit
appears as its true nature in place of the blossom. These stages are not
merely differentiated; they supplant one another as being incompatible
with
one another. But the ceaseless activity of their own inherent nature makes
them at the same time moments of an organic unity, where they not merely
do
not contradict one another, but where one is as necessary as the other;
and
this equal necessity of all moments constitutes alone and thereby the life
of the whole.
-----
Many of those that lay claim to the truth not only do not consider Hegel's
philosophy worth studying but also regard the whole of philosophy as
somewhat irrelevant to their practical work. It is one thing to repeat
words but quite another to prove the truth through human activity. In its
own way the disaster in New Orleans has exposed the true nature of US
society. It has shown the 'benefits' of privatisation. It has shown up
'individual choice' as a choice of graveyard for many poor and disabled
people. It has shown how private property is more im****tant than life
itself in the philosophy of the imperialist ruling class. It is nature
that
teaches us these truths.
Roger
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