Truth and Morality: The Role of Truth in Public Life, (Ser. IVA Vol. 37)

Rok: 2007
ISBN: 9781565182493
OKCZID: 110252332

Citace (dle ČSN ISO 690):
DANCĂ, Wilhelm, ed. Truth and morality: the role of truth in public life : Romanian philosophical studies, VII. Washington, D.C.: Council for research in values and philosophy, 2008. 242 s. Cultural heritage and contemporary change. Series IVA, Eastern and Central Europe, 37.

Anotace

At the beginning of the 20th century, Henry Bergson affirmed that man cannot escape his crises without spiritual development. These words of the French philosopher remain valid. Indeed, the need for improvement in the quality, being, values and models of life is felt all over the world. This seems most pronounced in Europe, especially in the countries once ruled by totalitarian communist regimes. In this geo-political area, since the fall of the Iron Curtain, there has been a great desire for improvement at the social and individual level, but the change has been long delayed. Among other things, this is due to the fact that while good is closely related to truth, the search for truth has not been rigorously undertaken. Public life is not suffused with a sense that life is grounded in truth. Rather there is passive acceptance of the rupture between personal truth and public morality, between the individual conscience and laws which are correct only in political terms. Moreover, moral conscience, long buried by cultural factors and deformed by historical and reductive conceptions, remains a matter almost too delicate for discussion.Hence, this work looks deeply into the religious and philosophical cultural traditions in search of a more adequate grasp of truth, its role in private and public life and its relation to social minorities and majorities, the features of a healthy sense of life in this world, the relations between law and morality and between Church and the lay state, and the role of education. It analyzes the different ways of understanding truth and theforms of morality it generates: from the individual and subjective, unrelated to public life, to a more dynamic, objective, responsible, mature and personalized manner. The work is divided into three parts. The first is focused upon truth. This recognizes the multiple horizons of truth and its search despite the temptation of the lie. It relates truth to value and rights and conceives it dynamically as a spiritual journey. In this light it reports on an intensive discussion of the relation of faith and reason. Part II extends the horizon of truth to morality, theology and science. For the richness of the present pluralistic context and its challenge to objectivity, it explores human life as situated between good and evil, heaven and earth, betrayal and heroism, even in terms of environmental ethics. Finally Part III opens the horizons of truth still further to public life. This studies the shape of the New Europe and the contribution of the Orthodox and Catholic in shaping the political order by a morality based on truth. All this is the burden of the present volume.

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