The Self-Giving of Truth in Love

First reflections on knowing as communion

Abstract

The question of truth is philosophy’s original and basic theme. From an anthropological perspective it has always been one of the most fundamental and significant interrogatives. This is still the case in today’s world, when the very idea of truth appears to have been internally corroded by the wide-spread feeling of the fragility of all knowledge. Beginning with the original Greek meaning of truth, the article examines a ‘twofold modality’ of knowing. It then outlines a further way of knowing based on love as its original paradigm. This gives the human search for truth a character that is intrinsically intersubjective and communitarian and that finds its expression in dialogue.