Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 21:08:27 -0400
From: ay581-AT-yfn.ysu.edu (Robert V. Scheetz)
Subject: truth





We are asking the question of truth.  The customary determination
 of truth runs:  ... ...

... in this self-evident determination  of truth as correctness 
there lurks something worthy of questioning:  that multiple-unitary 
openness of the things, of the region between things and humanity, 
of humanity to itself, and each to the other.  ...

... At first it is unclear what it really 
is that we are referring to here and are calling openness. ...especially ... we recall that for two thousand 
years Western history has been satisfied with the ordinary 
conception of truth.

_Basic Questions of Philosophy_, pp22-23  
[sec. 9, recapitulation 2]


     
henry, 
      lear, in prison with cordelia, exhults as to how they'll
search into the mystery of things, as if they were god's spies...

 shelley muses on the mountain top:...the everlasting universe of things flows thru the mind...
where from secret springs, the source of human thought its tribute brings of waters...

and keats on a flower pot that teases us out of thought
to know that beauty is truth...

isn't this discourse, the rending of viels and the cleansing of doors and
the propriation of sublime influencings,...and so on
-the truth of beyng, 
the familiar metier of poet/seers since gilgamesh
saw th worm on inkidu's face?

... and mighn't a lay understanding be excused the erroneous inference  that  only an RC theologian of the vat 1 era were philistine enuf  for such obtuseness to disregard or 
devalue it...?
or such egoism ?

with pleasure
bob


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