Against the Ethics of Truth
ISBN: 9788842090762
publisher: Laterza
year: 2009
pages: 182
Against the ethics of truth means in favor of an ethics of doubt. Beyond appearances, doubt is by no means the opposite of truth. It is the reaffirmation of it, it is a tribute to truth, but a truth that always and again has to be examined and re-discovered.
«When will the holders of a supposed absolute truth manage to convince themselves that politics and civil ethics are not the mere application of their own ingrained beliefs or convictions, but mediation between beliefs, convictions, opinions, norms and concrete situations? To access this, which is then the condition of democratic life, there is no other way but what Zagrebelsky calls the 'ethics of doubt,' the only one that honors the truth that no one possesses, because, from age to age, truth is always found by way» Umberto Galimberti