THE REVERSAL OF THEORY –IDEOLOGYRELATION IN POST-TRUTH ERAS
THE REVERSAL OF THEORY – IDEOLOGYRELATION IN POST-TRUTH ERAS

Summary/Abstract: The logical analysis of the expression post-truth, as used by its advocates, reveals that it signifies a complex of four elements: the term itself, the appeal to a prestigious tradition of thinking, a cognitive dissonance and the simulation of the justification game. The fundamental element for its success with the public is the last one which clearly relegates this ideology into the class of intentional (auto) manipulative discourses. As a strategy for counteracting the post-truth ideology, it is suggested to reconsider Immanuel Kant’s critique of such sophistical strategies which the author of Metaphysics of Morals had to overcome in his own time.

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