This document explores the concept of objective vision and its role in the pursuit of truth, drawing on the ideas of Plato and the distinction between sensory and intellectual evidence. It argues that objective vision is essential for understanding the truth, but must be balanced with subjective experience and reason. The document also examines the importance of not relying solely on what is immediately apparent, and the need to consider the intervention of reason in the pursuit of truth.
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[...] The senses influenced by emotions, feelings are on the other hand susceptible to considering as truth what is not. This is obvious, it's clear, it's evident therefore it's the truth. But according to Plato, there is a distinction between the world of sensory appearances which represents a less true world and the intelligible world which represents the world of ideas. According to him, knowledge of the truth is only possible through ideas solely by reason and not through the senses. [...]
[...] In conclusion, the truth is not immediately apparent because man must have an objective vision of it without, however, abstracting from the senses as in Plato's theory of knowledge. Indeed, the starting point of truth is an evidence that seems true to our eyes but does not agree with reality except if it is the fruit of reasoning, of immediate intuition. Relying solely on the sensible world, as Plato explains in 'The Allegory of the Cave', would be to live in illusion. [...]
[...] Before answering the initially posed question 'Does the truth burst one's eyes?' , it is advisable to well understand the different terms that compose it. « "La vérité" has as its etymology the Latin "veritas" which means "the true", "reality". Formerly, truth referred to Being but today, this term has a more objective sense associated with verification, demonstration and opposed to subjectivity which is related to the affective. Truth therefore represents the agreement of our thought with the real because it is a character of our thought and not of what exists. [...]
[...] Finally, before concluding, we will study the importance of having an objective view of the truth without being misled by evidence, especially by referring to Plato's theory of knowledge. [I. What is evident is truth. In the first place, everything that is evident serves as truth by the fact that it jumps out at one's eyes. An evident idea imposes itself on the human mind without any doubt being able to exist. But in reality, evidence represents a necessary condition to achieve truth. It guides human beings towards truth without claiming to be it. [...]
[...] Having an objective vision of the truth. Finally, it remains necessary not to rely solely on what is immediately apparent, for in this way, man confines himself to preconceived ideas, evident to him, prejudices that distance him from the truth. Through the 'Myth of the Cave', Plato shows that man should not become a prisoner of the sensory world like these men in the cave. These men imagine the external world through echoes, shadows that are true for them but distant from the truth because in their cave, they are far from external reality. [...]
