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What Is Truth: Wrestling with Absolutism, Relativism, and Alternative Facts (Re-Release from S01E21)

A Pastor and a Philosopher Walk into a Bar

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The Philosophical Pursuit of Truth

November 19th is World Philosophy Day. Professor Kyle Whitaker gives us a Cliff Notes version of the philosophical pursuit of truth and the philosophical view of truth. In religious life, usually truth is attained through some kind of authority structure. And truth is given to me by the authority in a way that I'm not free to then question it. The authorities that have pronounced on it are viewed with suspicion by philosophers because they're humans too. We can't be certain about any of it.

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