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To: marek_wojna who wrote (58231)	9/16/2000 11:51:16 PM
From: Ahda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116759

It is not the internet it has it owns set of problems and big ones at that. It is the ability to print to have high debt loads and have this universally accepted as proper, as it appears as prosperous.

To: marek_wojna who wrote (58231)	9/17/2000 2:23:11 AM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 116759

<All truth is matter of opinion.> It is necessary to be disposed, or tuned, to a thought to understand it. This corresponding is a speaking. It is in the service of language. The Greeks called this process Logos. Logos is a tuned correspondence which unconceals the Truth. Aren't we humans, always already in such a correspondence, and, what is more, by virtue of our nature? Does not this correspondence constitute the fundamental trait of our nature? Your statement above, "all truth is a matter of opinion," indicates you already know what Truth is: <Just imagine how much you can achieve having faith only> The original Greek nature of Truth, in the era of its modern-European sway, has been guided and ruled by Christian conceptions. The dominance of these conceptions was mediated by the Middle Ages. At the same time, one cannot say that Truth became Christian, that is, became a matter of belief in Revelation and the Authority of the Church. The meaning of Christ has its origin in the Greek word, Logos. The statement that Truth is in its nature Greek is attested by the rise and dominance of the sciences and technology. The Greeks asked many questions: "What is the Beautiful? What is knowledge? What is Nature? What is movement? What is Love? What is Wisdom?" That which "what" means is called the essence or whatness. However, the whatness is determined differently in the various periods of history. Thus, for example, the philosophy of Plato is a specific interpretation of what the what signifies, namely, the "Idea." Aristotle interprets the whatness as "energeia." Kant gives another interpretation of it. Hegel still another. Schopenauer interprets the whatness as "Will to Live." Nietzsche as "Will To Power." My point here is that the Question of Truth is a path and a process. It leads from the actuality of the Greek World down to us, if not, indeed, beyond us. We are still living in the midst of the Greek world today. "Techne" is a Greek word. "Techne" is the name not only for the activities and skills of the craftsman, but also for the arts of the mind and the fine arts. From earliest times, until Plato the word "techne" is linked with the Greek word "episteme." Both words are names for knowing in the widest sense. They mean to be entirely at home in something, to understand and be expert in it. Such knowing provides an opening up. As an opening up, it is a revealing and unconcealing. Technology is a form of revealing and unconcealing. Technology comes to presence in the realm where revealing and unconcealment take place, where aletheia, Truth, happens. Technology is a means to an end. The revealing and unconcealing that rules in modern technology is a challenging which puts to nature many demands. Yes, technology provokes. Only to that extent that the human reality is already challenged to exploit, can this revealing and unconcealing happen. Technology is a mode of Truth and so is the Internet. Who would deny this? The conception of Truth has changed frequently in over 2000 years. But precisely because of these changes, Truth has remained the same in the Greek sense of revealing and unconcealing. For the changes are the warranty for the kinship in the same.