The Decline of Redemptive Truth and the Rise of a Literary Culture: the Way the Western Intellectuals Went
The Decline of Redemptive Truth and the Rise of a Literary Culture: the Way the Western Intellectuals Went

Summary/Abstract: Questions such as “Does truth exist?” or “Do you believe in truth?” seem fatuous and pointless. Everybody knows that the difference between true and false beliefs is as important as that between nourishing and poisonous foods. Moreover, one of the principal achievements of recent analytic philosophy is to have shown that the ability to wield the concept of “true belief” is a necessary condition for being a user of language, and thus for being a rational agent.

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