Tag: Truth
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The Eternal Rhythm of Light and Darkness 1
A Severinian Perspective We experience life as a rhythm. Clarity seems to follow confusion, joy appears after suffering, light seems to emerge from darkness. This oscillation feels fundamental, almost sacred, as though reality itself moved by cycles of loss and recovery. Many philosophies and spiritual traditions have treated this rhythm as the very structure of…
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The Difficult Truth
On the Chasm Between Severino’s Eternity and the Human Condition Introduction: The Philosopher’s Paradox This is a peculiar phenomenon observed in the halls of academia: a philosopher can achieve a masterful command of the necessary truth of eternal being, a truth whose logical framework Severino demonstrated, and yet display anxiety over a career milestone, vehement…
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Appendix – The Inexhaustibility of Truth
If truth is understood as aletheia, as unconcealment, as what shows itself, then a further consequence follows almost immediately. Truth cannot be exhausted. This is not because truth is vague or incomplete, nor because it depends on changing perspectives. It is inexhaustible because what is does not appear all at once, nor in a single…
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Truth Does Not Need Defenders
After following the path that led truth from certainty to suspicion, from shared horizon to provocation, one temptation remains. The temptation to defend truth. It is understandable. If truth has been relativized, dismissed, or treated as dangerous, it seems natural to want to restore it, to argue for it, to protect it from distortion. Yet…
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Why Truth Keeps Reappearing
If truth has been so thoroughly questioned, relativized, and displaced, a natural question arises. Why does it keep coming back? Despite repeated declarations of its demise, truth remains indispensable. It returns in places where it was supposed to be irrelevant. Science relies on it. Ethics invokes it. Justice presupposes it. Even movements that explicitly reject…
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Why Truth and Freedom Are Not Opposites
One of the deepest assumptions shaping modern thought is the idea that truth and freedom stand in opposition to one another. Truth is associated with constraint, limitation, and obligation. Freedom, by contrast, is understood as openness, choice, and self-determination. To be free is to decide for oneself. To accept truth is to submit. This assumption…
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Dialogue After Truth, and Why It Fails
In a culture that has learned to distrust truth, dialogue is often presented as the alternative. Where truth is seen as rigid or exclusionary, dialogue is offered as open, inclusive, and humane. The idea is simple. If no one can claim to be right in any definitive sense, then conversation can remain fluid and non-threatening.…
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Nihilism Without Drama
When the word nihilism appears, it often evokes dramatic images. Despair, meaninglessness, moral collapse, or a refusal of all values. But the form of nihilism that shapes much of contemporary thought is far quieter and far more pervasive. It does not announce itself. It hides behind reasonable assumptions about change, freedom, and openness. At its…
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What Truth Ultimately Concerns
Up to this point, we have clarified what truth is not. It is not opinion, belief, consensus, usefulness, or sincerity. But this still leaves the central question open. If truth is not any of these things, what does it actually concern? At its most basic level, truth concerns what is. This may sound trivial, almost…
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Truth Is Not an Opinion
One of the most common misunderstandings in contemporary discourse is the idea that truth is simply a stronger version of opinion. According to this view, people have beliefs, preferences, interpretations, and values, and truth is just what someone happens to hold more firmly, or what a majority happens to agree upon. This assumption is so…
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The Unspoken Rules of Intelligence
Before asking what is true, or even whether truth exists, there is a more basic question that often goes unnoticed. What makes intelligent dialogue possible at all? We usually think of discussion as something natural. People talk, disagree, exchange views, and sometimes reach understanding. But none of this is automatic. Dialogue only works because certain…
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When Truth Disappears, Emotion Takes Its Place
When truth no longer functions as a shared reference point, something else inevitably fills the gap. In contemporary culture, that something is emotion. This is not because emotions are new or suddenly more intense. Human beings have always felt anger, fear, empathy, pride, and shame. What has changed is their role. Emotion has shifted from…
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From Truth to Perspectives: How Postmodernism Reframed Reality
To understand why truth has become so problematic, we need to look at a profound shift in how reality itself has been understood in recent decades. This shift is often gathered under the broad and somewhat vague label of postmodernism. Postmodernism did not begin as an attack on truth. It emerged as a reaction to…
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Why Truth Has Become a Provocation
There is hardly anything more divisive today than the claim that there is truth. To say it out loud is often enough to trigger suspicion or outright dismissal. One risks being labeled reactionary, dogmatic, authoritarian, even dangerous. The mere suggestion that something might be true—not just personally meaningful or emotionally resonant, but true—has become deeply…
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Introduction
The word truth comes from the Greek aletheia. It does not mean correctness, accuracy, or agreement. It means unconcealment, unveiling, what is no longer hidden, what shows itself. For the Greeks, truth was not something one invented or possessed. It was something that happened. Something that emerged when what is allowed itself to be seen…
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Psychedelics and the Structure of Being – 1: The Psychedelic Renaissance and the Hunger for Truth
We live in an age of deep disillusionment. The great narratives of modernity—progress, science, material comfort—no longer hold the authority they once did. For many, the promise that rational knowledge or economic prosperity could satisfy the human spirit has been exposed as a fragile illusion. Beneath the surface of technological advancement and social change, a…
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Contemplative Seeing and the Unshakable Center – 2
Resting in Truth – The Joy and Peace of Being Building upon our exploration of the immediate encounter with truth, this article delves deeper into the experience of resting in that truth. Once the ground of being is revealed—however briefly—it offers a profound peace and joy that transcend ordinary understanding. This rest in truth is…
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Beyond Left and Right – Article 10: The Eternal City – Towards a Civilization Aligned with the Structure of Being
Western civilization, having undergone profound crises of meaning, has long been caught in the oscillation between competing ideologies—none of which have been able to provide a stable foundation. The failure of both progressive deconstructionism and reactionary restorationism points to a deeper issue: the absence of a necessary and indestructible foundation upon which civilization can rest.…
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Beyond Left and Right – Article 8: The Future Shaped by the Structure of Being
The recognition of the eternal and indestructible nature of Being is not a mere theoretical exercise; it has profound implications for the future of human civilization. Up to this point, we have explored the collapse of former meta-narratives, the necessity of an indestructible foundation, and the ways in which the Structure of Being provides the…
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Beyond Left and Right – Article 6: The Role of Ethics and Law in the Recognition of the Structure of Being
The recognition of the eternal Structure of Being carries profound implications for human ethics and law. If Being is necessary and indestructible, then morality and justice cannot be arbitrary constructs shaped by historical contingencies or subjective preferences. Rather, they must be understood as necessary expressions of the eternal order. In this article, we explore how…
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Post 58 – Beyond Method: Science and the Structure of Being
The preceding exploration of philosophy, mysticism, theology, and near-death experiences (NDEs) examined how different paths attempt to unveil truth. Each of these approaches, despite their differences, ultimately gestures toward the same reality: the immediate, self-evident appearing of truth. What remained unaddressed, however, is the role of science in this interplay. If science, too, seeks to…
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Post 57 – Beyond Thought: The Structure of Being and the Convergence of Paths
The preceding discussion on philosophy, mysticism, theology, and near-death experiences (NDEs) illuminated a fundamental tension: truth is immediate, yet language and thought often obscure rather than reveal it. If philosophy does not construct truth but removes the obstructions to its appearing, and if religious, mystical, and experiential insights testify to the same immediacy, then a…
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Post 56 – Beyond Words: Direct Seeing, Philosophy, and the Limits of Language
Human beings have long wrestled with the relationship between truth and language. Is truth something we discover through reasoning, or is it something immediate, beyond the grasp of conceptual thought? Philosopher Emanuele Severino argues that truth cannot be reached from untruth—reasoning alone does not produce it, because we are always already within it, even if…
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Near Death Experiences 6:The Role of Fear, Euphoria, and Subjective States
Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) are often categorized based on emotional tone—most describe feelings of overwhelming peace and euphoria, while some recount fear, distress, or even nightmarish visions. This has led many to interpret NDEs in moral or religious terms, as either a foretaste of reward and punishment or as a reflection of the individual’s psychological state.…
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Near Death Experiences 3:Language and the Impossibility of Describing the Eternal
A striking feature of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) is the recurring claim that they are “beyond words.” Many who undergo NDEs struggle to articulate what they have seen, felt, or understood, often resorting to paradoxes: It was more real than reality. I experienced everything at once, but it wasn’t time as we know it. The light…
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Post 37 – The Necessary Unfolding of Truth in a Lifetime
Introduction Within the Structure of Being, as understood in Emanuele Severino’s thought, life is not a journey of becoming but the appearing of an eternal necessity. Every moment of existence, every experience of time, is an expression of the immutable truth of Being. What appears as the unfolding of a lifetime is not a transition…
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Post 22 – The Nature of Truth
Truth is fundamentally linked to eternity and the necessary being of all things. Every being, whether a thought, an object, a person, or a moment, is eternal, never truly coming into being or ceasing to exist. Yet, humans live under the illusion of becoming, mistakenly believing that things are born, change, and perish. This illusion,…
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Post 5 – A Truth That Cannot Be Shaken
Two Selves in One We are always within the Truth. We embody our true being, yet in time, we perceive it only in fragments—one fleeting moment at a time. This fractured perception obscures the whole. Unconsciously, we know the Truth because we are it; however, consciously, we perceive only its fleeting fragments: the present moment.…
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It Is What It Is 