Pathways to Truth

This Is My (Post) Truth, Tell Me Yours; Comment on “The Rise of Post-truth Populism in Pluralist Liberal Democracies: Challenges for Health Policy”

This is a commentary on the article ‘The rise of post-truth populism in pluralist liberal democracies: challenges for health policy.’ It critically examines two of its key concepts: populism and ‘post truth.’ This commentary argues that there are different types of populism, with unclear links to impacts, and that in some ways, ‘post-truth’ has resonances with arguments advanced in the period a...

Truth in the Context of Christian Faith and its Relation to Other Religions

In the following reflections on the understanding of truth in regard to Christian faith (or even in regard to religious faith, experience, and language in general), I advocate a relational interpretation of truth. Truth in that sense is understood not primarily as an intellectual assertion but as a qualification of a dynamic, existential, personal relation. Truth is the trustworthiness of that ...

دروغ‌گویی به بیمار با انگیزه‌ی‌ خیرخواهانه

Telling the truth to patients is a key issue in medical ethics. Today, most physicians hold that truth-telling to patients is crucial, and that lying to patients or withholding information from them is not acceptable. It seems, however, that absolute and unconditional truth-telling is not always possible, and it may not be feasible to tell some patients certain truths under some circumstances. ...

Review of Reviews/ ‘Tis Truth not Imagination: A Response to "Sometimes a Desire for Truth, Sometimes Imagination: A Critique on the Book Kimia, The Child of Mowlana’s Household": Gholamreza Khaki

بازخوانی روایات توریه و حکم آن

Some narrations are assumed to apply Toriya to avoid absolute lies. They also attribute the use of half-truth to the prophets. However, analysis of content and document of mentioned narrations, along with analyzing relevant verses in the Qurān and defining an acceptable criterion to distinguish truths from lies, show that half-truth is false. Regarding religious beliefs, it is considered to be ...

The Dialectic of Truth and Appearance in Lacan’s Reading of Gerhard Richter’s Overpainted-from-photographs

One of the most important contemporary theoretical approaches that can be used to analyze works of art is the theories of Jacques Lacan (1901-1980), a French post-structuralist psychoanalyst. By combining psychoanalysis, philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology, he analyzes the world of the human subject’s mind in a series of intertwined and extensive cultural and social relationships.This art...