Introduction
There is an existence of truth, and there is truth about human condition too. History has seen wonderful people who have contributed to the advancement of culture, welfare and religion. Even today there are people who are epitomes of truth and ask for respect and admiration. However, there is something essentially wrong with people, their truthfulness and their knowledge (Adam, 2013).
Discussion
The importance of truth is a fraught term. The search for the idea behind what truth really is ultimately not going to produce any result, defined by philosophers to be an indefinable concept. In the context of time and place, the notion of truth was considered as the ultimate situation of all events and objects in the classical age. Each sentence was judged based on their corresponding meaning in the real world. Plato pointed out that all the absolutes have an existence in a realm that is beyond human experience. Not until the 20th century was this view given any kind of appreciation. During the 20th century, the perception of truth dramatically changed, bringing along with unique revolutions in most of the sections of human life. Science, with the help of its rigid materialistic framework permitted the fresh and radical approaches to thinking, which included Heisenberg’s paradoxical uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics and Einstein’s relativity theory. The incoming of these approaches altered the way physicists viewed the world, permitting them to think about the subsistence of numerous universes and the role consciousness plays in creating reality. The 20th century saw the oncoming of ecumenism, morals becoming relativistic, politics more democratic, people more understanding and equal, and philosophy post-modern. However, it is impossible to say if the changes in the way truth was defined were the results of these processes. Therefore, it is difficult to say that what once was considered truth is the notion of truth even today (Hansen, 2012).
In the context of knowing, religion is the shelter, opium and cure from human miseries. It is ultimately a deception, a temporary source of shelter, knowledge, hope and relief. Real and concrete human actions are the only way of realizing the meaning of his own conditions. The masses are blind about their real condition and do not know what is required of them. They fall prey to deceptive schematization, and that has been the case forever. The way humans see the world today is not the same anymore, however, how they perceive things have had little modifications at the end of the day (Hayes, Barnes-Holmes & Wilson, 2012). Humans today are alienated from the objective realities of their material existence. They are victims to false consciousness. Whatever be the case, humans have a kind and loving instinct inside them in the end, not a savage or dark side. Man has always had the quest to know, searching answers to big questions of life. Not getting answers has sent him in all kinds of creative directions (Arendt, 2013).
Conclusion
Truth and knowledge has always been a part of human existence, however, their dimensions have changed in the world today. Today, mankind learns, states the truth first and then follows it with changing opinions and feelings.
References
Adam, B. (2013). Timewatch: The social analysis of time. John Wiley & Sons.
Arendt, H. (2013). The human condition. University of Chicago Press.
Hansen, J. T. (2012). Extending the humanistic vision: Toward a humanities foundation for the counseling profession. The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, 51(2), 133-144.
Hayes, S. C., Barnes-Holmes, D., & Wilson, K. G. (2012). Contextual behavioral science: Creating a science more adequate to the challenge of the human condition. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 1(1), 1-16.
