»Veritas filia temporis« Povijest, istina, jezik kao tehnološka konstrukcija
“Veritas filia temporis” History, Truth, Language as a Technological Construction

Summary/Abstract: In the introduction we deal with the problem of the concept of truth which, in accordance with the historical period, undergoes some basic changes. For example, mythical truth was conceived in the form of ritual effectiveness and later on, influenced by rethoric and sophistry, changed into the form of belief (peithò), seen as a more useful criterion of truth than the mythical- ritual one. Following the introduction, it will be shown that only within philosophy truth acquires its present form of logic, effectiveness and mental abstract objectiveness, a form that will successively dominate all western civilization. With the appearance of modern science, the complex of discursive basis stated by philosophy becomes more rigid and definite in its being specific. In the present post modernistic time, what appears in its evident functional effectiveness is a form of technologically useful truth which substitutes the old worn-out traditional concept of truth as mythological belief: as a manifestation of the being or the perception of the ego, starting in this way the notorious form of knowledge whose articulation does not depend on scientific basis, but first of all on the means in which it is produced. Nowadays knowledge corresponds more and more to the new logic of construction and destruction, where it is possible to face the fact by which a change of place causes a change of sense of the means, as well as the fact by which every place is open to the uncertainty of linguistic migrations and the inclusion in always different games. Truth is therefore valued for its effectiveness, finding its real meaning in what Nietzsche used to call ‘the will to truth’: a desire that corresponds completely to the human desire for knowledge, which allows man to cope with a world that was not originally determined.

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