Is there an Absolute Truth?
I’ve only read the introduction, but wanted to post about it immediately, as I’m impulsive and excited by claims about knowing or understanding the truth about existence. It’s called The Wholeness of the World.
Personally, I think (/feel/believe) that is time to re-consider the entire enterprise of truth-seeking and philosophy, and question the underlying motivation for it. Granted, it’s easy to dismiss that on various grounds. First, that examining the motivation to know is just another way of engaging it. Second, trivially, that as philosophy is the love of truth is the only justification it needsā??or in other words, it needs no justification. In any case, existing directions of thought and work can proceed quite happily in parallel with trying to get to the heart of the essence of the love for truth.
Additionally, theories about the value of truth-seeking and theory-making already exist, including both descriptive and prescriptive ones: the former being that the brain (or at least, the analytical brain) is fundamentally an organic machine for building and refining models of the world that we experience, and the latter being that we, as thinkers, and the brain, as the organ doing the thinking, have done this and will continue to do it because we have evolved and live successfully by that means, either as a by-product of aimless natural processes, or as a part of some master plan inherent in the universe itself.
Still, as of yet, I see no evidence that the author(s) have a convincing argument for believing that good as a universal concept actually exists. I still think it’s just a by-product of the need for individuals to bow down to social norms, as our socialization is an essential element of our evolutionary success, and our sense of ourselves.