CONCERNING THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH AND
By: Néstor Pedraza
is very much in vogue in our time the phrase "no absolute truths." It is assumed that this phrase represents the culmination of freethinking. Leave aside the fact that few know that the freethinking born as a philosophical current in the eighteenth century, widely held and disseminated by the Freemasons, and that its fundamentals are bourgeois liberalism that shaped the world we know today is say, is largely responsible for the world is like this one head and sunk into decay. Let's stick to the simple fact that whoever put this phrase on his lips, a person tries to show how tolerant, open minded, rejecting fundamentalism. But the happy phrase makes sense?
Like all fashion, this phrase has become a cliché. And no matter when it rules thoroughly, you just have to be in tune with it or suffer ostracism for being "radical." In spite of this, I say again: this is a common phrase, as false as what is supposed to transmit.
philosophical frameworks do not delve into the matter. Let's do it simple: any hypothesis that is raised, any theory that comes up, must pass a simple test, proof of the absence of exceptions. Although slang is common to speak of "the exception that proves the rule," the truth is that the exception cancels the rule, speaking scientists and scholars. If within the domain the theory of relativity someone found one exception to this theory, however small, the theory that all would fall like a house of cards.
However, judicious reader: You will die. Not to panic, all human beings are going to die. Nobody can tell you exactly when or how exactly, but certainly, you will die. Even if you believe in reincarnation, you must know that to reincarnate must first die. ALL going to die.
Let Parts:
- You will die. That is unquestionable. It is absolutely true.
- All human beings are going to die. Is a clear statement directly, without edges. There is no exception to this rule. Another absolute truth.
- Nobody can say when or exactly how he died. Even in the case of a terminally ill patient can be established exactly how much you have left. Irrefutable. We're on in three.
Ergo, yes there are absolute truths. We know three, at least. And if three, could be more. But even if only one with this would be enough to say with certainty that YES are no absolute truths. In other words, the existence of a single Absolute truth is more than enough to state categorically that it is absolutely false that there are no absolute truths.
On the other hand, it is very much in vogue phrase "everything is relative." Beyond the fact that this phrase is usually a way out to evade a question or situation, some fans feel postmodernism more postmodern philosophers of postmodernism, forge their weak arguments about the "relativity" of good and evil in this brief postulated. Because if "everything is relative," then nothing is certain, nothing is certain, and it is assumed that each individual gives el derecho a “lo que sea” que le resulte cómodo o beneficioso. Por supuesto, no se necesitan tres dedos de frente para comprender que con esa política es imposible construir una sociedad. Una de las definiciones más básicas de "sociedad" es: "Reunión permanente de personas, pueblos o naciones que conviven y se relacionan bajo unas leyes comunes" [1]. Si cada individuo de una comunidad tiene sus propias leyes, basado en su propio criterio de qué es lo bueno y qué es lo malo, pues no hay sociedad, simple y llano.
Pero veamos: Explíquele Usted, hábil lector, a un niño que lleva 3 días sin eating, hunger is on, because after all, everything is relative (as on is that while he endures hunger, thousands of tons of food are wasted each day around the world.) Explain it so that he can easily understand. And do it in front of the child's parents, to know what they are saying. Also explain that there are people who claim that eats the sun, photosynthesis is possible in humans, to see which side lay. The "1 Billion Hungry" (
www.1billionhungry.org ), launched by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in 2010, seeks to pressure the governments of developed countries ease dealing with more serious basic problem of humanity today:
More than 1,000 million people are chronically hungry in the world. 25,000 people die of hunger every day, more than all the combined deaths from tuberculosis, malaria, and AIDS. Should teach them about the "relativity of hunger" and how "eating the sun."
Pregnancy is an interesting topic to illustrate this point. Because pregnancy is often a relative thing for the man, but he is unable to explain the relativity of matter to the woman, who, after all, is that it carries. For it is so simple, plain, clear and without edges, as it is growing a baby in the womb. Point.
Returning to the absolute truths, the fact that there is absolute truth an obviously contradicts the assumption that "everything is relative," because if everything were relative, nothing is absolute, and we saw that there is absolute truths. Death is absolute. We "relativize" the issue, saying that Balzac is still alive through his work, or that Bolívar is still alive because his ideals do not die, but the plain and simple fact is that Balzac and Bolivar are dead. Point.
Now we can give thanks to God. Because if everything is relative and not absolute truths exist, that would mean there would be nothing true that human beings do not have a firm handhold which sustained no clear guidelines to follow in order not to miss. On the contrary, know that it exists at all, it is reassuring: it gives us the possibility of a safe path to follow, guidelines immutable, irrefutable and universal to give us light to know how to live our lives. The possibility of a Truth with a capital, undisputed and indisputable that, if found, will serve to comfort and guide.
And if that truth exists, where is it? Their signals are in every heartbeat, every beam of light entering our eyes, every step and every breath, every star and every tree. But generally, we do not. And although we see, not look, do not understand it, we do not think about them. Truth should be sought. How? Well, that's what the brain was given to us, right? I did it my way, and reflected in "The Truth" (
http://mensajesenlaruta.blogspot.com/2010/06/la-verdad.html ). But everyone should go their own way. ----------
NOTES [1] ILLUSTRATED DICTIONARY OF KNOWLEDGE STANDARD, 6, Voice "Society" P. 2133. See Larouse, Dictionary of the English language Voice "Society." RELATED ARTICLES
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