If the Church proclaims
the truth about human existence, then literature, according to Aristotle's definition, must also reflect something of this reality.
«Although I am an atheist, I respect all religions and take them seriously as vast symbol systems containing deep
truth about human existence.
I believe that stories communicate both the gospel and
the truth about the human existence, but more importantly, they awaken in us something long repressed by our modern culture: life itself is a story.
Not exact matches
A hallmark of the Catholic tradition is that God's
existence (though not His Trinitarian nature), the
existence of the incorporeal soul (though not the nature of the after life and the beatific vision), the nature of the
human person (though not the full
truth about the indwelling of grace), and the natural law are all accessible to us without divine Revelation.
For both Augustine and Hobbes the bellum omnium is a marginal case, illustrative of certain
truths about human nature but not, except in situations of exceptional breakdown, actually descriptive of normal
human existence.
If Philip Larkin's fine words
about An Arundel Tomb (that what remains after death is our loving) are the
truth — and something deep in
human existence affirms that they are — then what matters most of all
about any one of us is the way in which and the degree to which we are enabled to contribute, however imperfectly this must seem to us, to the delight of God and the implementation of God's will and way in the world.
But it makes good logical sense to say that as elements of
human knowledge, the so - called apriori
truths are mere hypotheses
about the universal conditions of
existence.
As to their presuming to set their destination, surely the editors can not complain
about that, since they so strongly agree with the Supreme Court dictum in Casey that there is no higher
truth than «the right to define one's own concept of
existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of
human life.»
Whatever we perceive to be the
truth about God, I think there is some things we all can agree on, believers and anyone who doesn't believe in the
existence of God and that is that it is self evident that all are born equal and with dignity and it's best if everyone relate to each other as part of the
human family.
But I think
truths about society and
human existence can be approached in different ways.
Since a commenter mentioned the medieval vineyards in England, I've been engaged on a quixotic quest to discover the
truth about the oft - cited, but seldom thought through, claim that the
existence of said vineyards a thousand years ago implies that a «Medieval Warm Period «was obviously warmer than the current climate (and by implication that
human - caused global warming is not occuring).
«Those who witness extreme social collapse at first hand seldom describe any deep revelation
about the
truths of
human existence.
Horizon: Zero Dawn follows the story of Aloy, a young woman and tribe outcast intent on finding the
truth about her parentage and
existence as she hunts robot dinosaurs and
human bandits.