The Truth is on the Surface

A symposium Days of Petersburg Philosophy took place in St. Petersburg. This event gathers hundreds participants both from Russia and from abroad annually. Concordia Foundation took part in one of the workshops of this symposium called TRUTH AS A VALUE AND THE PROBLEM OF TRUE VALUES IN TODAYS RUSSIAN CULTURE (Led by: Candidate of Philosophical Science, assistant professor of philosophy  from St. Petersburg State University of economics and finance, Masloboyeva Olga Dmitrievna and Doctor of Biological Science, Savich Igor Mikhailovich).

Last-years discussions on the question of truth and its interaction with philosophy, science, religion and art sparked genuine interest among present scientists who were representing various cultural spheres in wide geographical range — Russia, Former Russia and USA. The following topics were discussed during the symposium: classic and present-day concept of truth and its standards; truth and value in classic and present-day science; true and ostensible values of philosophy, science, religion, morality and art; organic concept of truth, goodness, beauty, justice and holiness in the Russian society, etc. Alongside with purely philosophical issues we also touched on some questions of Christian faith.

Vice-principle of the religious, philosophical and pedagogical center named after Y. A. Komenski, K. K. Ivanov at the end of his speech about love for truth said, “Now we can fully understand the meaning of our love for truth. As any other kind of love it seeks reciprocity and finds fulfillment in it. The love of truth in the fullness of its religious, personal manifestation as communication between God and men is a special gift of Christian faith. And the everlasting classic of the Christian faith is that be the means of the Holy Spirit we miraculously get to know the eternal, inaccessible God in the person of a man — Jesus of Nazareth — who is a man like we are, who represents God to us not being a mere prophet, but shows us the eternal human face of God. In todays society the meaning of Christian faith becomes apparent particularly in the newest theology.”

A student of the Russian Christian Humanitarian Academy, S. N. Vasilkova, in her speech on the idea of truth in the Ancient Greek Philosophy and Christian tradition emphasized that, “truth is God as absolute entity that knows Himself and knows the world as His creation…. Experiencing the nature of creation which is logically arranged we acquire the freedom of thought that being purified by the Spirit is able to rise up to understanding of the mystery of thought that sees itself only logically – i.e. thought about God before creation of the world.”

In his speech Doctor of Biological Science, I. M. Savich — director of Concordia Foundation — presented ways of possible communication and logical influence in the process of the discourse on evolution and creation. With that he especially stressed that the informational essence of the living creatures clearly points to their creative source which greatly questions the main principle  of the evolution model about the accidental appearance of every living thing on the Earth. Thus, the truth acts as the absolute value in respect to Jesus Christ’s words, “I am the way, the truth and the life.” So the Truth is on the surface. Just to look at that.

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