Fini last. Absolute truth. Dialogicality

Abstract

The recognition of an absolute truth is often accused of intolerance or rejection of dialogue. Yet it is necessary to admit that reason tends, of itself, to seek and to recognize truth. Even if philosophical and scientific systems often fall into totalitarianism, it is possible to follow a third way, between that of irrationalism and that of Popper’s falsifiability. It is truth itself which imposes itself, but it does so dialectically, in conjunction with freedom. Also, the admission of an ultimate or absolute end is not synonymous with intolerance. Dialogue and tolerance are founded on the commitment to freedom and on the absolute value of truth.