George was a distinguished participant in a seminar that Tom Morris directed for many summers under the sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a great teacher and man of letters. This is his first contribution to the Philosophers' Corner.
Truth is the same thing to the understanding as music to the ear or beauty to the eye.
With this quotation from G.N. Clark, Fernandez-Armesto, a member of the Modern History faculty at Oxford University, begins his vastly ambitious and extraordinarily fascinating history of truth. Well, Professor Fernandez-Armesto not only believes in truth, he is in love with it. Caught at times in the agnostic fog that seems to permeate this postmodern age, I found my faith in truth and my commitment to its pursuit restored. That pursuit will only be partially successful in this life, but it is will worth every effort. I should humbly bow before his left hand and say, 'Father, give me striving.