What might be true in my eyes, is not necessarily your version of the truth. And as we all see the world in different ways (because of the way we grew up, because our environment, parents, religion, etc) I was wondering: Is there something like "the ultimate universal truth?"
2006-11-27 00:35:39 · 29 answers · asked by MM 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Truth, as understood by many , is only a relative truth. Black, white , brown. Rich , poor, good , bad are all refering only to retaive truths. We misunderstand them as truths. And that is where the problem arises.
Universal truth exists. This is that which can never be refuted by any arguments or doubts. A simple example could be "death". All who are born will die is an universal truth. It is the ultimate aim of human beings to understand the universal truth about life , purpose of life and the creator.
2006-11-27 01:32:46 · answer #1 · answered by YD 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This sounds like a simple question but it will take more than Yahoo and Google databases to answer this question. Aren't all the things around you truth. Aren't you living, breating and thinkin?
If someone living in another planet asked his fellow citizen Is it true that there other human beings in the universe? That fellow citizen might say I don't. But we all here on earth know it is true.
So simply put truth is the opposite of not knowing. The answers might be there in front of your eyes, maybe a physical object but you are too busy and don't even notice it or it could be something that does more (perhaps years) of research.
All the knowledge in the world did't come to exist in one day and has not been achieved by one single person. I don't know what happened beyond the scientifically accepted theory of the origin of the universe. I let your personal or religious preference decide for you.
By the for the people who say there is no truth? What is 1 plus 1? Isn't internet real? Maybe 2000 years ago that would have been unthinkable.
Lastly it is more difficult to identify falsehood. Truth comes when oyou identify facts. With the facts we create new facts and realities. I believe time -the physical time is the ultimate truth. When you were a baby, you still didn't walk. That was the truth then. Now so many years later, you could do amazing things and ask difficult questions like "What is truth?" And by the way we all get old. Hopefully with more medical research we will live longer and be immortals and bore ourselves to death. That is for the for future.
So truth on one hand has to do time. What we can sense-feel, touch, see, smell, taste, introspect, research. With passing of time and with more knowledge we do solve little things in our lives- if we want and choose to.
Sure there is always difference in the interpretations of certain things. This has probaly has to with human taste- yes to culture and where you live. But before you disagree to something look at the facts, the context, time, etc; If the shirt is red don't say it is pink. Maybe it is another shade of red. Like I said isn't 1 +1 = 2 a fact and ultimately the truth.
2006-11-27 01:29:37 · answer #2 · answered by ra 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a question, well done for even thinking it up!
You are asking if there is 'The Truth' And if there is can it be defined? Am I right?
We know of relative truths don't we are born we die, touch hot coal it burns etc. These are common held facts which we call truths.
You rightly point out we are all conditioned and therefore tend to have our own versions of truths.
You then take a giant leap and ask if there is an ultimate universal truth?
This is a profound question indeed!
How will you find out?
Must you first be familiar with your own conditioning and what that says? Realising fully that the answer is not in there, but what is in there will distort your enquiry?
If you do this you have cleared the way.
The mind that asked the question can then and only then be free to hold the question.
Maybe and only maybe you might have an insight into it all!
Which will either answer your question or dissolve it completely.
Based on life experience.
Thank you for such a good question!
2006-11-27 03:31:31 · answer #3 · answered by sotu 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Jain's believe that there is no absolute truth.
As you have mentioned, truth depends upon your own perception.
Absolute truth maybe beyond our perception, though we can strive to see an argument from both sides of a coin.
There is one ultimate universal truth, what ever is born or comes into existence is governed by the law of impermanence IE everything changes from one form into another.
You are never the same person physically or psychologically as you were ten years ago, even if we try to relive our past.
2006-11-27 05:52:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When an event happens, there are many perceptions of that event which are coloured by the unique observations of each observer.
When there is a general consensus on an event, that is deemed to be the truth. Therefore, a definition of truth would be 'generally agreed consensus.'
There is 'the ultimate universal truth'.
In regard to events, that ultimate universal truth would be a completely impartial and accurate Truth, which none of the observers would be privy to (because of the limitations of their viewpoint, which are based, as you have observed, on seeing the world from an individual perspective).
2006-11-27 05:57:28 · answer #5 · answered by Sun is Shining ❂ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mahatma Gandhi said 'Even if you are in the minority of one, the truth is still the truth.'
I personally feel that 1+1=2 and maths in general is a human construct invented by man to allow us to quantify things. It is in essence a fact, however this does not necessarily mean that this 'fact' is true. Think of Orwell; Big Brother has people believing that 2+2=5 that proves the point that humans can be manipulated into believing ANYTHING is fact, whether or not it is true!
2006-11-27 01:35:46 · answer #6 · answered by Alison of the Shire 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It has to exist because there are thing which cannot be denied. Am I a human? Yes. Am I female? Yes. Am I typing this? Yes. These three things are true, because I am not a dog, a male, or not typing this right now. Opinion does not equal truth, but one opinion may be more reflective of the real truth, while another more lies than truth. In the end, there has to be a Truth, because who are we kidding then? Either I am alive or I am not "I think therefore I am".
2006-11-27 00:49:10 · answer #7 · answered by Blodeuedd 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Truth can see the lie and walk beyond, not held bound as the lie does ground. Truth is a light . Many have followed a lie for light only to receive the pains reserved for that lie. To deny living with a lie deep within the mind which covers the soul from rising up . pains in the body come from the denial to set truth free among the thought held tight. I could say more, but here i will stop for now. Truth leads, who will follow?
2006-11-27 00:50:46 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It would be lovely to think that there is "the ultimate universal truth", but my 'truth' is not your 'truth', and so it goes on over generations of people. We are only human and sometimes falsehoods get in the way of truth, and people lie to themselves and to others. Sadly, our world is a place of many acts of violence and people feel unsafe but I still hold true the fact that I can be true to myself.
2006-11-27 06:45:42 · answer #9 · answered by Janet F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an ultimate universal truth, however this truth cannot be described objectively. Trying to describe truth to someone is like trying to describe the colour red to a colour blind person. The problem is that we all experience it differently.
The problem with the truth is that truth is all encompassing but our minds are limited by our perspective.
Universal truth does exist, but no human will ever see or experience it.
2006-11-27 00:42:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋