CCAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BELIEF IN THE ATTAINABILITY OF TRUTH: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS WITH A HISTORICAL EXAMPLEAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE BELIEF IN THE ATTAINABILITY OF TRUTH: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS WITH A HISTORICAL EXAMPLE

• Authors: Hȍsle Vittorio
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The essay explains the necessity of mechanisms that maintain a certain homogeneity of beliefs in human societies that rely on cooperation and discusses several causes for the decline of contemporary societies’belief in the attainability of truth and the reliability of science, one being the replacement of epistemology by the sociology of knowledge. It analyses on purely conceptual grounds the deleterious consequences that this decline must have for the stability of democracies and ends by showing some parallels between the rise of Fascism and National Socialism and the current situation.

Keywords

EN

DECLINE OF BELIEF; TRUTH; MANIPULATION; SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE; CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 79
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 113 – 132

Contributors

author

Hȍsle Vittorio

• College of Arts and Letters, University of Notre Dame, 100 Decio Faculty Hall, Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/filozofia.2024.79.2.1