Dimensions Of Truth Research Articles

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The present study takes the politico-philosophical approach of reconstructing the concepts of truth and the universal in a poststructuralist way in order to criticize our present situation of post-truth. This approach takes the following four steps. First, beyond simply diagnosing the present post-truth situation, it also critically analyzes the various discourses that criticize the post-truth situation. The conclusion of this critical diagnosis is that the discourses which criticize the present post-truth situation treat truth in a cognitivist way in accordance with the propositional conception of truth, which is based on a superficial misunderstanding of Anglophone analytic philosophy. Second, in order to criticize these attempts to reduce truth to the dimension of the true, it reconstructs the post-structuralist triangle of truth-history-subject based on French historical epistemology, i.e. the post-structuralist conception of truth. The post-structuralist conception of truth does not reduce truth to a dimension of the true but elevates it to the dimension of truth itself. Third, it defines this post-structuralist triangle of truthhistory-subject as the triangle of the universal, based on the post structuralist philosopher Étienne Balibar’s reflections on the universal. Through an analysis of the history of philosophy, Balibar deduces three qualities of universality - equivocal universality, conflictual universality, universality as translation - from the thoughts of Spinoza-Wittgenstein, Hegel-Marx, Quine-Benjamin. Fourth, in order to address the objection that can be raised against the post-structuralist conception of truth and the universal, which is the problem of the arbitrariness of the standards for truth and the universal, it criticizes the Deleuze-Nietzschean reflection on the courage of the false, based on Balibar’s philosophy of actualityas- structure. Lastly, it reflects on how truth and the universal ought to be thought of from the standpoint of the intellectuals in this post-truth situation. In the end, the aim of this article is to provide a theoretical key to overcoming our current post-truth situation, by thinking about truth and the universal in a different way from current discourses.

The historical significance of the formation of Buddhist schools during the Sui and Tang Dynasties

ABSTRACT The formation of Buddhist schools during the Sui and Tang Dynasties is the most significant achievement in the Sinification of Buddhism and holds profound significance in the history of civilization. This article takes ‘Fulfilling the Threefold Training’ as the core of the sectarian concept and explores the Sui and Tang Dynasty Buddhist schools within the three major dimensions of truth, sanctity and daily life. It discusses various elements such as the Division of the Buddha’s teaching, Dependent Arising, meditative contemplation, patriarchal tradition and monastic discipline. The formation of Buddhist schools was based on a methodology of inheritance, interpretation and innovation, representing a civilization exchange of ‘difference and unity.’ Simultaneously, the formation of these schools signifies the central role of Mahāyāna Buddhism in China, contrasting with the peripheral position of Mahāyāna Buddhism in India, presenting a mutual civilizational learning of ‘periphery and center.’

Inner Dimensions of Truth: Paradigms for the Faith and Mission of Catholic Education

The paper examines the inner dimensions of truth by investigating Jewish-Christian Scriptures, Doctors of the Church (Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure), and Pontiffs (John Paul II and Benedict XVI). Through phenomenological and dialogic thinking, the inner dimension of truth is surfaced as personal and interior enlightenment and divine revelation (Scriptures), as dialogical communications (Benedict XVI), as God's grace bestowing perpetual liberation (Augustine and John Paul II) as the realization that man is a manifestation of God (Aquinas), as action (Scriptures and Bonaventure) as reciprocal acts of love, justice, and the promotion of the common good (Scriptures and Benedict XVI). These inner dynamics serve as a framework of Catholic education, teaching the notion of truth according to its faith and mission, establishing a Divine – human relatedness and an initiation process. Truth is bestowed, and humans are encouraged to accept and present themselves to Truth.

“Who do you say that I am?” Truth in Narrative Identity

The following article explores what notion of truth is possible in Ricœur’s narrative identity. It is motivated by the question of how our identity can be constituted in narratives of self when we are often easily self-deceiving and do not choose the building blocks of our narratives. It explores how our identities are constituted in narrative, with others, in order to see what dimensions of truth this allows. Narrative identity implicates a novel notion of truth that is intrinsically ethical, which gives rise to a set of ethical issues. In particular, a truth of self that occurs in relation to others is open to violence and abuse—our very identity is, to varying degrees, in others’ hands. Butler’s ethics of fragility may offer a positive solution.

Knowledge and society: A comprehensive approach to social epistemology

This article proposes an alternative approach to social epistemology – a comprehensive approach. It argues that the dominant approaches to social epistemology, which it identifies as communitarian and veritistic, are inadequate. It observes that the nature of the emphasis that the communitarian approach places on the epistemic community foster mindless tolerance in epistemology, which makes the pursuit of the cognitive goal of truth difficult to attain. It also observes that the veritistic approach that seeks to refocus social epistemology on the pursuit of the cognitive goal of obtaining truth does this at the expense of the affective goals of social epistemology. To overcome the inadequacies of the communitarian and the veritistic approaches and to ensure that social epistemology effectively pursues its cognitive and affective goals, this article offers the comprehensive approach. This approach absorbs the virtues of the communitarian and the veritistic approaches while avoiding their errors. Hence, it thrives on a view of truth that posits an objective and a subjective dimension of truth. The objective dimension ensures that the community only fosters and never impedes social epistemological projects such that social epistemology continues to pursue the cognitive goal of truth. The subjective dimension guarantees that the concern for truth does not lead to the neglect or abandonment of the pursuit of the affective goals of social epistemology. The rationale behind this approach is that for social epistemological projects and practices to remain truly epistemological and social, they must always take into consideration the cognitive and affective features of knowledge and knowers.

Dimensions of Truth in Cardiology Consultation

Dimensions of Truth in Cardiology Consultation

La vérité de la clinique psychanalytique

ObjectiveThis article offers an examination of the notion of truth in psychoanalysis, specifically in the work of S. Freud and J. Lacan. Far from being linked to notions of accuracy, certainty, or objectivity, as it the case in the field of science, subjective truth offers itself for psychoanalysis from its own perspectives. By giving itself the goal of elucidating the truth of the subject and not the disappearance of symptoms, psychoanalysis also deviates from any reference to reality and its standards, and defines a field and criteria that are unique. MethodThis reflection is based on a chronological and thematic reading of the texts of S. Freud and J. Lacan; it does not claim to be exhaustive but makes it possible to trace the outlines of an elaboration where points of continuity and rupture are marked between the authors, but also within in one's elaboration. ResultsFor Freud, subjective truth is connected with the deciphering of the unconscious. Symptoms, dreams, and slips of the tongue are understood by opening up to an unintentional discourse, which is that of free association. The truth arises only by surprise, only manifests itself in fragments, only lets us grasp it after the fact. The work of psychoanalytic treatment leads to a reconstruction of the subject's story based less on accuracy than on plausibility, which earns the subject's conviction. For the Lacan of the 1950s, taking part in a re-reading of psychoanalysis based on linguistics, the dimension of truth is consubstantial with the dimension of language and therefore of the treatment: the subject cannot avoid confronting it from the moment s/he speaks. The speaking truth states a truth about which the subject would prefer to remain ignorant. The truth of the subject is that of a repressed desire, expressed in the field of the Other in the form of an inverted message. Rereading Epimenides's Paradox sheds light on the fact that truth belongs to the field of enunciation, the subject's own field. DiscussionWith Lacan, a second, more complex conception of truth emerges from the second half of the 1960s, when the possibilities conferred on speech and on the Symbolic recede in favor of a conception that recognizes an ever-expanding role of the Real and of the impossible. It is a truth designated as lying-truth, which can only be “half-said,” that of a truth recognized as horror, with the discovery of the unnamable thing, the objet-a, a part of the (speaking) body that is at once the most foreign and the most intimate. ConclusionThe subject's truth is not in itself, but in an object of a veiled nature: the objet-a that emerges in analytic discourse as impossible to say. This object is both the cause and the product of speech. The analyst's role is not to take pleasure in the truth of the analysand, which the former brings up as a question, without taking a position on the answer, which the analysand provides. At the end of a cure, the analysand can hope to have produced knowledge about her/his jouissance, irremediably of the order of fiction, which comes as close as possible to the impossibility of bearing witness to the Real.

Beyond #MeToo: The Therapeutic Action of (Female) Agency and Après-Coup in The Tale1

ABSTRACT This essay considers Jennifer Fox’s largely autobiographical feature film The Tale from the vantage point of the #MeToo movement, which coincided with and contextualized its release. Fox’s fidelity to an actual story she wrote at age 13 enlists the viewer in deconstructing the binaries of unambiguous victim/perpetrator, victim/survivor, truth–fiction, memory–desire; omnipotence–agency; coercion–consent; then–now; psyche–soma; fantasy–reality; and patriarchal privilege–women’s voices. The film reveals the intersubjective dimension of truth as a contestation between desire and destruction of knowing (oneself, the other). It refuses any dichotomy between childhood fantasy and traumatic seduction, insisting on the perplexing reality and persistent effects of their ensnarement. Most powerfully, the film bears witness to the power and therapeutic action of (female) agency, and attests to the après-coup or afterwardsness of truth, as we witness the protagonist—between a voice of now and a voice of then—imaginatively rewrite her experience of the past in the present.

Technologies, knowledge and truth: the three dimensions of information literacy of university students in Slovakia

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to inform on results of the study based on the dissertation project – the study of newcoming university students and their information literacy experience. It describes the three categories of information literacy experience as perceived by these students.Design/methodology/approachThe document is based on a qualitative phenomenographic study of 40 first-year undergraduate students of teacher education programs from five faculties of Comenius University in Bratislava. Data were collected from each participant in two stages by three methods: written statements, drawings and interviews.FindingsThe phenomenographic analysis results in three categories of information literacy: (1) the conception of digital technologies, (2) the conception of knowledge and (3) the conception of truth. The outcome space presented by two alternative models points to a strong interrelation of all three categories. The resulting conceptions point to the diversity of the concept of information literacy in relation to other types of literacies, especially digital, reading and media literacy, as well as to intersections with other scientific disciplines such as psychology, cognitive science or philosophy.Research limitations/implicationsThe most important limits of this qualitative research are the low numbers of participants and the high degree of subjectivity in data evaluation. For this reason, a verification study was carried out one-year later.Originality/valueAlthough phenomenographic studies of information literacy in the educational context are quite common, the third category of this study brings a new contribution to the information literacy theory – the dimension of truth or truthfulness of information.

TRUTH AS THE GOOD IN THE WAY OF BELIEF

Abstract William James once said that truth is “the good in the way of belief.” This has the ring of, well, truth. While it may appear as if James’ claim is straightforwardly true, I think that there are at least three different dimensions along which truth can be normatively related to belief. In this paper, I explore these different dimensions of truth’s value, considering both how they differ and how they relate. As we will see, our understanding of these different dimensions of truth’s value can impact our understanding of its nature. I argue that a fuller understanding of the connections between truth’s normative dimensions pushes us in a decidedly pragmatist and pluralist direction—something of which I believe James would approve.

Dynamics of Contemporary Indonesian Sufism: Actors, Scientific Genealogy, Educational Patterns, and Doctrines of the Majelis Shalawat in East Java

This article examines the dynamics of Majelis Shalawat as a “new” Sufi institution that flourished in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Majelis Shalawat as another alternative to the tarekat is another option for the community because it teaches various dimensions of truth and makrifat. This following research focused on 3 (three) Majelis Shalawat, they are: (1) Majelis Shalawat Kubro (Gus Syamsu Dhuha), (2) Majelis Shalawat Muhammad (Gus Kahar), and (3) Majelis Shalawat Adlimiyah (Gus Mursyidin) in East Java. These are being an interested attention due to its multiple findings; Firstly, having a teacher backrest that forms a scientific genealogy. The three murshids become one unity because there is a key figure beyond them, namely KH. Muhammad Tamyiz (Mbah Tamyiz). Mbah Tamyiz connected with Sufi scholars from the 1970s to 1980s who were continued by his three successors. Secondly, it is built based on a specific Sufi education pattern, namely the strict mujahadah and riyad traditions. Thirdly, on the basis of scientific genealogy and educational patterns, which finally forming doctrines or thoughts. The doctrine taught by the three murshids, both stated and unstated, is continued with Abu Yazid al-Bustami (ittihad), Mansur al-Hallaj (hulul), Ibn al-'Arabi (wihdat al-Wujud), until Abdul Karim al-Jilli (tajalli). As a preliminary study, this article attempts to present the relationship among the scientific genealogy, educational patterns, and doctrines of the teachings of the three murshids in their respective of Majelis Shalawat as a part of contemporary Indonesian Sufi

What is brandjacking? Origin, conceptualization and effects of perceived dimensions of truth, mockery and offensiveness

This paper defines brandjacking as an anti-commercial parody of an ad that sabotages and re-appropriates that ad's message out of its original context to unravel important truths and concerns about the brand. This is the first scholarly research that conceptualizes and coins the term brandjacking. It examines the effects of truth, mockery and offensiveness in brandjacking on attitudes toward the brand, skepticism, and intentions toward such brandjacked stimuli. Results from hierarchical multiple regression analyses demonstrate that even though consumers pardon a brand from its mockery in a brandjacked stimulus, the perceived dimensions of offensiveness and truth about the brand damage the brand so as to adversely impact brand attitudes. While truth about the brand in the brandjacked stimulus hurts the brand because it attempts to demystify and debunk brand claims, it helps the audience elicit a favorable attitude toward the stimulus itself and intentions to pass it along to others.

Examination of Teachers’ Perceptions of Individual Values in Their Workplaces: A Case of Burdur Province

The purpose of the research is to reveal the individual values perceptions of the teachers working in the Burdur Provincial Directorate of National Education operating under the body of the Ministry of National Education. Participants comprised 131 male and 169 female teachers. When the mean and standard deviation values regarding the teachers’ perceptions of individual values in their workplaces were examined, it was seen that they agreed with the discipline and responsibility dimension, they were undecided about the trust and forgiveness dimension, and they agreed with the honesty and sharing dimension as well as the respect and truth dimension. When perceptions were examined according to range values for the respect and truth dimension, there were significant differences the trust and forgiveness dimension and the sharing and respect dimension. Accordingly, male teachers’ perception levels in the trust and forgiveness dimension were significantly higher than the levels of the female teachers. On the other hand, the perception levels of the female teachers in the sharing and respect dimension were significantly higher than the levels of the male teachers. The perception levels of the single teachers in the trust and forgiveness dimension were significantly higher than the levels of the married teachers. On the other hand, the perception levels of the married teachers in the sharing and respect dimension were significantly higher than the levels of the single teachers. According to the results that we evaluated by the task type variable, a significant difference between groups was observed only in the trust and forgiveness dimension. Accordingly, the perception levels of the contracted teachers in the trust and forgiveness dimension were significantly higher than the levels of the permanent teachers.

J\xf3zef Tischner\u2019s epistemology of \u201cpolitical reason\u201d and the \u201cethics of truth\u201d

That which connects ethics and epistemology is the concept of truth. The threads concerned with the ethical and epistemological understanding of truth are interwoven throughout the history of philosophy. They are also interwoven in Józef Tischner’s philosophy. In Tischner’s thought, the description of this interweave and its consequences, as well as ways of dealing with it, are very inspiring. In the present paper, I address Tischner’s highly interesting analysis of the development of the “political reason.” Then I juxtapose this analysis with Tischner’s demand concerning the “ethics of truth.” I also show how Tischner, by referring to the Gospel and proposing a peculiar ‘Christological imperative,’ resolves dilemmas emerging at the interface of epistemology and ethics. Thanks to the reference to Christ, who not only realizes the ideal of the “ethics of truth,” but also becomes the privileged “vantage point of the world,” and thus a peculiar epistemological centre, the connection between the epistemological and ethical dimensions of truth is established. Also, a sufficiently solid justification for the demand that the “ethics of truth” be realized becomes possible, and the way of defending oneself against the charm spread by the “political reason” and its works is identified.

OBJEKTIVITAS BERITA BENCANA GEMPA LOMBOK DI MEDIA ONLINE

An earthquake with 6.4 on the Richter scale that rocked Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara and parts of Bali on July 29, 2018, really attracted the attention of the public. Regarding coverage of natural disasters, the easiest alternative media to get access to information is online media. In fact, the public found that news through online media tended to ignore objectivity, such as elements of completeness, accuracy, fairness, neutrality just to get the publication fastly. The purposes of this study were first, to find out the objectivity of the news presented by Viva.co.id, Kompas.com, and Tribunnewsbali.com during the earthquake and post-earthquake disaster in Lombok from 29 July to 29 August 2018, and the second, to describe the roles of Viva.co.id, Kompas.com, and Tribunnewsbali.com in reporting the earthquake in Lombok during this period. The focus of online media content analysis is on the elements of objectivity, truth, factual, accuracy, complete and neutrality. The research method used is the content analysis method using a quantitative approach. The object of this research was the Lombok earthquake news reported by Viva.co.id, Kompas.com and Tribunnewsbali.com period July 29 to August 29, 2018. The results showed that Viva.co.id, Kompas.com and Tribunnewsbali.com prioritized sub-dimensions truth in upholding objectivity. Where the sub dimensions of truth are divided into three elements, those are factual, accuracy and complete. But Viva.co.id and Tribunnewsbali.com ignored the sub-dimensions of neutrality. While kompas.com didn’t ignore the sub-dimensions of neutrality. Even though the sub-dimensions of neutrality are part of the dimension of objectivity.

Guest Editor's Introduction: Toward an Archaeogenealogy of Post-truth

Guest Editor's Introduction: Toward an Archaeogenealogy of Post-truth

The uncertainty of the mass image: logistics and behaviours

ABSTRACTThe question of uncertainty raised in this special issue raises issues for the image as truthful, the truth that viewers can claim to find in images and the ethical dimensions of truth. By tracing some key changes in the history of photography, this paper demonstrates that the mass production and especially mass storage and distribution of images create a new condition for the image. This condition asserts that the purpose of the totality of the mass image as it now exists in databases is a mode of truth which alters earlier ontological, epistemological and ethical claims for certainty. Rather than propose a return to the humanistic privilege of the individual image, the paper suggests that a new politics of truth is demanded by the new condition of the mass image.

The Status of the Social Fact

The Status of the Social Fact

Libros didácticos: Entre lo «verdadero histórico» y la «imaginación creadora»: reflexiones sobre ilustraciones de Historia y cultura de los pueblos indígenas en libros didácticos de Historia

This research analyzes images (illustrations) about history and culture of indigenous people in history textbooks. Trough proposition the analysis of illustrations on indigenous people’s history and culture we discuss the representations of indigenous, their history in the context of the study of history in Brazil, and the diversity of their cultures. This research considers illustrations as vestiges of their time and as documents/sources in the studies of History and «History Teaching» illustrations produced to be used in a media context of the history textbook, in which the historical source is regarded in the dimensions of truth and imagination.

The Cultural Logic of Photo-Based Meme Genres

This article probes the cultural meaning of contemporary meme genres that are based on photographs. The analysis looks into the broad dimensions of truth and temporality, as expressed in three prominent genres: reaction Photoshops, stock character macros, and photo fads. Based on patterns shared by these genres, it is argued that photo-based memes function as both modes of hypersignification, wherein the code itself becomes the focus of attention, and as prospective photography, wherein photos are increasingly perceived as the raw material for future images. Finally, combining the two frames, memes are conceptualized as operative signs – textual categories that are designed as invitations for (creative) action. While these three qualities were also evident, in one way or another, in traditional forms of photography, they have emerged as governing logics in an era marked by an amalgamation of digital photography and participatory culture.