Integrity

Frederick Werner

pp. 95-120

in: Leroy Rouner (ed), Philosophy, religion, and the coming world civilization, Berlin, Springer, 1966

Abstract

Truth seems to have as its most striking characteristic that it does not contradict itself. But this negative statement does not do it justice. There is something more. Truth supports the view that it is whole. Through the history of human inspiration runs a perennial thread: the integrity of truth.