The Only Truth Existing
"We are, then, faced with a quite simple alternative:
Either we deny that there is here
anything that can be called truth - a choice that would make us deny what we
experience
most profoundly as our own being; or we must look beyond the realm of our
"natural"
experience for a validation of our certainty."
A famous philosopher, Rene Descartes, once stated, "I am, [therefore] I
exist." This
statement holds the only truth found for certain in our "natural"
experience that, as
conscious beings, we exist. Whether we are our own creators, a creation, or the
object of
evolution, just as long as we believe that we think,
we are proved to exist. Thinking about
our thoughts is an automatic validation of our self-consciousness. Descartes
claims, "But
certainly I should exist, if I were to persuade my self of something." And
so, I should
conclude that our existence is a truth, and may be the only truth, that we
should find its
certainty.
