Bellum omnium contra omnes: comunicare și adevăr
Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes: Communication and Truth

Author(s): Constantin SĂLĂVĂSTRU
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, Religion and science
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: truth; communication; dialectical confrontation; convenable truth;
Summary/Abstract: This paper brings to attention the analysis of the relationship between truth and communication. More specifically, the idea it argues for is that every individual is dominated, sometimes almost obsessively, by their own truths; individuals defend them with all their available strength, and they rarely pay attention and, especially, are rarely open to other persons’ truths. This happens both at the level of common knowledge and at the level of scientific or artistic knowledge. This “tyranny” of the truth significantly disrupts the communication acts between individuals: nobody can communicate normally when their truth is, according to their belief, the only one that should be taken into consideration! Giving examples from philosophy (Descartes, Kant), from science (Einstein), from art (Dali, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Mozart, Salieri), from politics (Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr., Castro), we try to show the practical basis of the above-mentioned idea.

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