Medieval philosopher-theologian Peter Abelard maintains that "Doubt leads to inquiry; inquiry leads to truth." Do you agree or disagree with this proposition. Why or why not?
2006-10-16 11:56:21 · 14 answers · asked by sokrates 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Yes if you are in doubt, you will be curious to know, so inquiry is the next step.to find out what is true. The truth can only be discovered by an inquisitive mind. An inquiring mind is alive, the toe the line or believers are just relying, they cannot touch the truth head on, only the descriptions of truth are available to a believer.
2006-10-16 12:11:51 · answer #1 · answered by ol's one 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Poor Peter Abelard lost his 'member' but he didn't lose his ability to think and write beautifully. If inquiry lead to truth I think we'd know a great deal more about what our government is REALLY doing, for example, or what is REALLY happening in Iraq, and we would have ended a thousand political scandals in our history early on. Diligent inquiry leads to truth depending on who is conducting the inquiry, what their motives are and who their alliances are with, and of course if the recipients of the information even want to know the truth.
2006-10-16 19:11:03 · answer #2 · answered by myrmidon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Posting this on Yahoo! Answers seems to be a sort of inquiry. Do you expect to find some sort of objective answer from this inquiry? Do you expect to find that, in general, inquiry either leads to truth or doesn't? If so, then why even ask?
The Buddha knows. He inquired until he was a stack of bones filled with the dust of his internal organs. Then he found that inquiry does not lead to truth, nor does doubt, but that truth leads to itself. It is a web in all directions, it is the sole of your foot, the apple of your eye, the sock in your laundry, and you.
2006-10-17 00:05:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doubt can lead to inquiry, but inquiry often doesn't lead to truth, but to the seekers ideas labeled truth.
It's like a congressonal inquiry. According to your party usually determins your end result.
2006-10-16 19:31:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree because when I become curious about something or need to know facts, I do research. When I doubt what someone says, I look to find out the truth or falsehood about the statement.
Especially politicians, is most likely what I'm thinking of, or research for history.
2006-10-17 12:14:54 · answer #5 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The truth is it depends on the extent of your inquiry. Eventually, if you look hard enough you will come across the truth. The secret is being able to identify it when it comes.
2006-10-16 20:02:13 · answer #6 · answered by Jessica M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it does, because as you inquiry, you learn more, you might go down a wrong road, but you will find out later and either retrace or go right or left and right yourself, each question that is found out you uncover a bit more truth, then as you ask another and another more and more truth comes to the surface for you to acknowledge or not.
2006-10-16 19:05:54 · answer #7 · answered by kickinupfunf 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree because someone long ago doubted that the earth was flat and set out to find a way to prove whether or not it was. Now we all know that the earth is round and that the earth is not the center of the universe. That seems small, but it is wonderful to know because it was the beginning of truth. Someone out there doubted that blacks and the deaf were ineducable and now there are many deaf and minority scholars.
2006-10-16 19:02:40 · answer #8 · answered by NolaD 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Inquiry , yes, if propelled by the readiness to walk on the pathless path behind the inquiry, where it takes, what ever it takes !
2006-10-16 21:11:47 · answer #9 · answered by Spiritualseeker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if your looking for truth and not for a predetermined answer or the answer that you want. A lot of people only enjoy the journey but forget completely about the destination.
2006-10-16 19:21:47 · answer #10 · answered by JumpingJoy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋