Let’s Recommit to Just and Democratic Truth-Telling Practices

Abstract:

As it seems more difficult to rely on points in common and shared terms to make sense of what is happening among and between ourselves and others in the world, it is critical that we remember the strides we have made in our relationship to truth and truth-telling and carry on with our shared project toward a more complex, just, and democratic truth. Considering the dishonest tactics, outright lies, and manipulations that threaten our aims, we should not relent by countering with a comparably narrow, absolute, and simple truth, or with claims that we indeed have the truth. Instead we should commit to building trust and extending our practices of truth-telling that take time and a good deal of care.

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