"One thing that frustrates some, and
fascinates others, about philosophical study, is that it takes ordinary
things and makes them very, very complicated. When I was in college, my
friends and I were fascinated with a book by the controversial
philosopher Martin Heidegger, entitled What is a Thing? Because, yeah, what is
a thing? Later, I was again fascinated to find that the autobiography
of the great Catholic convert G. K. Chesterton, published in America
under an unremarkable title, was originally published in England as The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic.
"One feature of Catholic thinking that
now fascinates people goes under the name 'objective truth.' For many
people, secular and religious alike, our world has been affected by 'the
turn to the subject,' or the tendency to say that truth mostly lies in
the eye of the beholder, or depends on who the person thinking is. For
truth to be objective, on the other hand, means that who the thinker is is not as important as what the thing they are thinking about is. The who needs to conform himself or herself to the what, not the other way around."
In a recent commentary, Brother Ephrem Maria Reese, O.P.,
reflected on objective truth, especially in the Person of Truth - Jesus.
To access Br. Ephrem's complete post, please visit:
Dominicana: Here's the Thing… (13 FEB 20)
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