What Then is Truth?
A Philosophical Dialog
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During the Middle Ages, religion came to be regarded as the principal source of truth. Since the Enlightenment, science has come to be regarded by many people as the most reliable source of truth. But in fact, most people regard their own personal experience as being the best source of truth. In What Then is Truth? these different viewpoints are each represented by articulate philosophers– St. Thomas Aquinas, Rene_ Descartes, and Jean-Paul Sartre– in a philosophical dialogue, moderated by Socrates. Each philosopher is permitted to use a knowledge of all past history in support of his views. The object of the dialogue is not to produce a winner, but to stimulate your interest in the nature of truth and to show that the consideration of opposing viewpoints can enhance our understanding.
About the Author
Susan and Gene have been married for seventeen years. Prior to their current marriage, they have had a combined forty-three years of marriage experience. Gene is a professor emeritus of physics at the California State University in Sacramento, where he taught for twenty-six years. He was born in Topeka, Kansas. Susan has degrees in English literature and art history and has taught at the Erie campus of the Pennsylvania State University. In addition, she has been publications manager for a library software company, editor for an educational testing company, and a newspaper reporter/photographer. She was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. Susan and Gene have each published other books. They live in Monterey, California.