Whose truth?

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John Banville follows Simon Blackburn on the ultimate philosopher's quest in Truth

Saturday May 21, 2005
The Guardian

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1487956,00.html

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Truth: A Guide for the Perplexedby Simon Blackburn
210pp, Allen Lane, £12.99

"In his keynote campaign speech delivered prior to the Vatican election, the man who would be pope, Cardinal Ratzinger, startled the world, or that section of it that was bothered to listen to him, with a tirade against what he saw as a modern-day surrender to relativism. We might have expected and certainly would not have been surprised by an abjuration of concupiscence and lust, say - although it is true that as Benedict XVI he did fulminate against the "filth" afflicting even his own church, and when a Catholic cleric uses such words we know he is talking about sex - but on the face of it relativism might have seemed pretty low down in the peccancy order. Not so, and certainly not so if, as the cardinal did, you have spent the past few decades heading up what used to be known as the Inquisition."

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