What trues have we access to? Can we put confidence in the information we get? The whole history of philosophy, as shown in the course, is a journey devoted to the lasting endeavour to go beyond the information we simply get, the hunting for truths upon which we can surely know.
The historical venture of philosophy contrasts with the current confidence in the digital sphere, in which having the means to access information seem to be all that we need to quickly acquire the knowledge we eventually need. However, when we surf the Internet, we are not only navigating upon information, certainly also upon realms of dis- and misinformation whose connection to reality is broken. In the very dawn of philosophy, Socrates was disappointed with the fact that sophists could defend one statement and the contrary. Then he asked himself, after scratching the surface of so many apparently knowledgeable Athenians, what could be known for sure. The link to reality seemed to be broken and philosophers have strived from antiquity to nowadays to restore it.
- Trainer/in: Jose Maria Diaz Nafria