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Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy by Bernard Williams (Hardcover, 2002)
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What does it mean to be truthful? What role does truth play in our lives? What do we lose if we reject truthfulness? Bernard Williams explores the value of truth and finds it to be both less and more than we might imagine. Modern culture exhibits two attitudes toward truth: suspicion of being deceived (no one wants to be fooled) and scepticism that objective truth exists at all (no one wants to be naive). This tension between a demand for truthfulness and the doubt that there is any truth to be found is not an abstract paradox. It has political consequences and signals a danger that our intellectual activities, particularly in the humanities, may tear themselves to pieces. Williams's approach, in the tradition of Nietzsche's genealogy, blends philosophy, history and a fictional account of how the human concern with truth might have arisen. Without denying that we should worry about the contingency of much that we take for granted, he defends truth as an intellectual objective and a cultural value. He identifies two basic virtues of truth, accuracy and sincerity, the first of which aims at finding out the truth and the second at telling it. He describes different psychological and social forms that these virtues have taken and asks what ideas can make best sense of them today. Truth and Truthfulness presents a challenge to the fashionable belief that truth has no value, but equally to the traditional faith that its value guarantees itself. Bernard Williams shows us that when we lose a sense of the value of truth, we lose a lot both politically and personally and may well lose everything.Product Identifiers
PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-139780691102764
eBay Product ID (ePID)88887540
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Book TitleTruth and Truthfulness: an Essay in Genealogy
AuthorBernard Williams
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
TopicPopular Philosophy
Publication Year2002
Number of Pages344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height235mm
Item Width152mm
Item Weight624g
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Title_AuthorBernard Williams
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
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Essential reading for all who value the intellectual modern history of thinking
An essential discussion by a great authorVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
