The "Dreyfusards" appealed to Enlightenment ideals of truth and justice, while conservatives, with the support of the Roman Catholic Church, argued for nationalist traditions that the army was held to embody.
So as you go forward to join this community, I want to exhort you to commit yourself to uphold its highest ideals: of truth and discovery, irrespective of personal or political agendas or current fads.
"I've written a lot about Harvard's motto being 'veritas,' " he wrote recently in an instant message, "and how uncomfortable I was when I discovered that Harvard actually didn't abide by the ideals of truth at all times.
In place of this Anderson calls for an approach that would allow instantiating the regulative ideals of truth, love, goodness, and justice as conditions for any incorrupt craving for infinitude.
While they are candid about the difficulties they face, they are committed to rebuilding Bosnia based on ideals of truth, justice, and a common humanity encompassing those of all faiths and ethnicities.
America embraces the challenge of defending on a global stage the ideals of truth, justice, and democracy -- to do so effectively, we must demand openness, accountability, and humanity from our own military and from our government.
The ideal theory of truth will be both consistent (e.g. avoids the liar paradox) and adequate (e.g. allows us to derive all the essential laws of truth, like (11)).
With the pragmatists, Putnam sees the ideal conditions as something which can be approximated, echoing the idea of truth as the end of inquiry.
Thucydides' mind found in unity and coherence its ideal of historical truth.
It features prints dating from 1846 to the early '90s made from altered negatives; seemingly realistic images made by piecing together two or more negatives; hand-colored black-and-white prints; Surrealistic montages; and conceptual confections contesting the ideal of photographic truth.
