Rodica Pop

The value systems established by centuries have been reversed under the pressure of the political correctness. I intend to talk about a way of communicating and transmitting messages in the public space nowadays. I write about post-truth, arguing that it is a lie cosmeticized, hidden in a language that astounds and is supported by ideas that challenge not only refined intelligence, but also common sense. When I write the word truth, I do not consider the concept of truth, which philosophy strives to define it, but I refer to the instrumental truth, the objective truth with which we operate daily, the truth as a benchmark of stability. And I put this truth in relation to the lie. I offer some concrete examples from the last three decades, from different environments, about events or statements that have been the subject of scandals that have started from the claim of some people to present a lie as a truth. I also refer to the fact that there is a whole Neo-Marxist literature that nullifies the natural hierarchy of things, so that objective truth loses its value, becomes irrelevant, flexible, until it is despised, because it is the instrument of „the conservative” individual, the class enemy of the progressives.

For the Christian believer the thought constructs belong to an inferior level of knowledge, any rational investigation being futile, because of the mind, which is situated within the heart, discovers the truth directly and easily, and comes in communion with God. Then, how come the great Christian theologians were interested in the profane philosophy, which deals with rationalization, defining, implementing ideas in discourse, troubling of the mind, and therefore the act of thinking? The fact that Christians treasure classic philosophy cannot be doubted, and a sign of this appreciation are the pictorial representations of some heathen Greek philosophers on the walls of Orthodox churches. My text intends to develop and clarify the peremptory connection that exists between the classic philosophy and the Christian theology. The pretext and at the same time the starting point of this step is represented by the justification of the presence of heathen philosophers that are painted on the walls of Orthodox churches, such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Thucydides, Solon, Hippocrates, to name just a few. They are painted in the house of a God in which they did not believe, as they lived some hundred years before the birth of Jesus.