On Truth kapak görseli

On Truth

 Önizleme

Standard'ı 30 gün ücretsiz edinin

Deneme süresinden sonra aylık 5,99£. Aylık olarak iptal edilir.
0,00£ karşılığında başlayın
Diğer seçenekler

On Truth

Yazan: Harry G. Frankfurt
Seslendiren: George K. Wilson
0,00£ karşılığında başlayın

30 gün sonra aylık 5,99£. Dilediğiniz zaman iptal edebilirsiniz.

5,26£ karşılığında satın al

5,26£ karşılığında satın al

Season's Savings | £0.99/mo for 3 months

£5.99/mo after 3 months - terms apply. Cancel monthly
A professor emeritus of philosophy at Princeton University, Harry G. Frankfurt penned a surprise smash hit with his New York Times best seller On Bullshit, which insightfully and wittily captured the human capacity for, and tendency toward, BS. Now he examines the other side of the coin with this equally entertaining and provocative follow-up.

As Frankfurt showed previously, bullshit lies within the realm of subjective perception. Truth, then, is what we find beyond this realm. But are we, as a people, willing to allow ourselves to be governed by honest principles? Could it be possible that we lack the commitment to acting morally and truthfully?

Using his trademark skill at sharing philosophical insights with a general audience, Frankfurt examines these and other questions in this informative audiobook.

 Epistemology Ethics & Morality Philosophy Society Ahlak
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1

Eleştirmen yorumları

"Equally brief, trenchant, and deeply thoughtful."(Booklist)
Tüm yıldızlar
En alakalı
I bought this audiobook, having enjoyed Harry Frankfurt's classic essay "On BS" (which would make an excellent audiobook on Audible!). However, although he makes some good points towards "On Truth", and it is well narrated, I ended up disappointed.



This book is really an appendix to his previous work, probably in response to criticism that he never discussed why truth was worth striving for.



Frankfurt takes a Pragmatist line on justifying the value of "Truth" - it is useful! Firstly because without it, reality is harder to navigate, secondly, that lying undermines trust, and the self image of our lied-to friends, and thirdly, that love of truth expands the soul (Spinoza). Post modernist relativism (that there is no truth), is Frankfurt's special bête noir, a chapter which I thoroughly enjoyed.



However, it is only briefly at the end that he goes into the more interesting aspects of truth and untruth, such as in the Shakespeare sonnet, where two lovers flatter each other, each knowing the other is being untruthful, yet this knowledge only enhances their love "...and so, together we shall lie".



By using a Pragmatist justification, Frankfurt never grapples with the issue that BS and untruth can also be useful, and therefore are presumably justified e.g. for the child who learns to tell their first lie to avoid punishment (an important developmental step), for the fraudster, who lies for gain, for the skilled Sophist who's clever BS win's an argument, for Kant worrying whether to lie to protect a friend from a murderer, or the white lies to save another's feelings.



He also never gets onto the fascinating aspects of partial truth such as: perspectivism, spin-doctoring, selective statistics or being economical with the truth, and this feels like an opportunity missed.



So, in summary, "On Truth" makes some good points, and is narrated well, but falls well short of being a worthy sequel to his more famous essay "On B******t".

An Opportunity Missed....

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
If most philosophy is like that, then God help me.

It just talks with dry academic words about how truth is instrumentally valuable and how without truth we can't understand objective reality and other platitudes.

He doesn't give any novel philosophical frameworks, just pontificates about things everyone intuitively knows.

Boring and uninsightful

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.