At a time when humanity is facing a crisis of truth produced by globalization and the indiscriminate use of technology, Guillermo Hurtado confronts us with the elementary search for what truth is, an essential question that many philosophers and thinkers have previously occupied, but which can be answered from a different perspective, especially if we reformulate it and try to determine why we should care.
Without making a strenuous historical review, the objective of this book is to demonstrate that attempts to define and make a theory of truth from coherent, pragmatist, deflationary, nihilistic, etc. positions have so far been failed or insufficient. So, to answer the question about truth, the author raises not a definition but a genealogical narrative, not a theory but the development of a moral pedagogy of truth.
The implementation of a moral pedagogy of truth offers varied alternatives to live with it in the best possible way, alternatives illustrated in the Hispanic literature Don Quixote de la Mancha, Life is a dream and The Criticon with which the author explores topics such as fear and rejection of truth and the confusion between the true and the false.
Today, that we are unable to distinguish between the artificial and the natural or the just and the unjust, Hurtado proposes to shorten the distance between philosophy and life to, in this way, point out the paths that lead from the modalities of non-truth to the truth and thus find ourselves with the original impulses of humanity.