The students at Columbia are trained to pursue Truth. College students are led to the trough in CC and Lit Hum courses where some feast, others sleep, and every appetite is whet. Engineering and Science students come up with and get rid of truths via the scientific method on a daily basis. From classrooms to popular culture, the truth of an idea is based upon its logic. Indeed, in courtrooms across America jurors are instructed to render verdicts that they are certain of beyond a reasonable doubt.
Truth is purely an intellectual object.
The pursuit of Truth became the conceptualization of reality drawn out form the individual's point of view rat her than the acceptance of an objective reality. Here we are in the twentieth century perhaps reaping what faith in reason has sown. A good argument can be made that the state of the world and the state of the individual are no better now than in pre-Enlightenment days. No one can agree, even with th e elaborate guidelines reason and logic have provided, what Truth is. It seems that ultimat ely reason has failed us.