Why is truth both absolute and relative?

Because truth is a viewpoint that people gradually sum up in the process of social practice, it has universal correctness, and this viewpoint is not subject to people's subjective will, and no one can and cannot change it at will. This is the objectivity of truth.

The so-called absoluteness, on the one hand, is absolute because truth is objective and not subject to human will; On the other hand, it is recognized that every step forward is an approach to the infinitely developing world, which is also absolute and unconditional. In this sense, the absoluteness of truth is acknowledged by acknowledging the knowability of the world, denying the unknowable, and acknowledging that man can obtain a correct understanding of the infinitely developing material world.

The relativity of truth and the absoluteness of truth constitute the dialectical philosophical categories in the development of truth. The so-called relativity refers to the recognition of the finitude of human consciousness, and truth is people's understanding of a certain aspect of things at a certain historical time. It has a certain scope and conditions of application.

At the same time, truth is also in the process of moving and developing, it is the process of people's consciousness gradually approaching the essence of things, this process will not be stagnant or immutable, and it is recognized that truth has the characteristics of movement and development like any other thing.

Grasping the principle of the unity of the absolute and relative nature of truth is of great significance to our correct treatment of Marxism. Marxism is the truth, and it is also the unity of absoluteness and relativity. It correctly reflects the universal laws of nature, society, and the development of the mind, and thus has an absolute aspect.

However, it does not exhaust everything and its laws, and needs to develop with the development of social practice, so it has a relative aspect. It is precisely because the truth of Marxism is absolute, that we must uphold it and take it as our guiding ideology. And because it is relative, we must enrich and develop it in practice. Upholding and developing Marxism is the correct attitude toward Marxism.

The principle of the dialectical relationship between absolute truth and relative truth guides us to establish a scientific attitude toward Marxism, that is, first, we must uphold it, and second, we must develop it. Marxism is the universal truth that was born in the practice of the proletarian revolution and was tested by practice, and then guided the practice of the proletarian revolution. Marxism is a correct understanding of the law of social development and an objective truth, that is, a correct understanding of the factors that contain absolute truth.

In this sense, Marcosism is the absolute truth. Therefore, it must be insisted on and must not be violated at any time. It is necessary to oppose the erroneous tendency to negate Marxism.

This view doubts and denies the correctness of Max's fundamental principles, and therefore, doubts and denies the objectivity and absoluteness of his truth. Marxism was born under certain historical conditions. It does not and cannot exhaust our understanding of the laws of social development.

Marxism also has a process of continuous development and perfection, and its individual viewpoints will also change along with the development of practice.

Truth is objective, and at the same time absolute and relative.

Absolute truth or the absoluteness of truth has two meanings:

1) Any truth is the correct reflection of objective things and their laws by the human brain, contains objective content that is not subject to human will, is principled and different from falsehood, and cannot be overturned within the scope and limits of its reflection. This is unconditional and absolute. In this sense, the recognition of objective truth is also the recognition of absolute truth.

2) Human cognition, by its very nature, is capable of correctly understanding the infinitely developing material world. Although it cannot exhaust the world, every step forward in understanding that it is one step closer to the infinitely developing material world, and it will add particles of absolute truth to the system of objective truth. This is also absolute, unconditional.

Acknowledging the knowability of the world also acknowledges the absoluteness of truth.

Dialectical Unity Relationship:

They permeate and contain each other. Any relative truth contains particles of absolute truth; Absolute truth is constituted by and manifested through relative truth.

They transform into each other. Man's grasp of truth is a process of transformation from relative truth to absolute truth forever, and there is no insurmountable gap between the two.

Therefore, it is necessary to use dialectical thinking to deal with the relationship between relative truth and absolute truth. Denying the relativity of truth will make the mind ossify; To deny the absoluteness of truth is to lead to relativism. The movement and change of the objective world will never end, and people's understanding of truth will never be exhausted.

Marxism has not put an end to the truth, but has only opened up the road to understanding the truth in practice.

What is the truth and how to better understand it has troubled many philosophers and thinkers in ancient and modern times.

First of all, we need to knowThe meaning of truth

Truth is people's correct reflection of objective things and their laws.

Be objective.

Truth exists objectively, and the content contained in truth is not subject to human will.

The uniqueness of truth, no matter how many conclusions people may draw when understanding things, only one kind of understanding that conforms to objective reality is the truth.

The absoluteness of truth, any truth is a correct reflection of objective things and their laws, and contains objective content that is not subject to human will, which is unconditional and absolute.

The relativity of truth.

People's correct understanding of objective things and their laws is limited under certain conditions, and first, any understanding of truth is a correct reflection of certain fields, certain things, and processes in the entire objective world within a certain range. Any truth has a relativity in time and a relativity in the scope of space. Second, any understanding of truth is only an approximate and correct reflection of a certain degree and level of specific concrete things.

How to understand the truth?

Absolutism and Relativism Absolutism exaggerates the absoluteness of truth and denies the relativity of truth. Absolutism holds that the truth that people have acquired is an absolute truth. The truth that people have acquired is eternal and unchanging, and it exhausts all knowledge of objective things.

Absolutism denies the development of truth. Relativism exaggerates the relativity of truth and denies the absoluteness of truth. Relativism denies absolute truth, necessarily at the same time objective truth, and thus turns truth into something subjective and arbitrary.

Relativism obliterates the objective criterion of truth and necessarily blurs the line between truth and falsehood. Believing that there is no truth in the world. Human understanding of the objective world is in the process of continuous improvement.

Passed:Practice—Theory—Re-Practice—Re-Theory—The infinite and long process gradually eliminates the limitations of time, space, and scope (depth), and approaches the "ultimate truth" more and more. However, there is no ultimate truth.

There is no end to human understanding of nature.

If there is no truth in this world, then this world is an unknowable world, but many facts prove that the world is not like this, but can be known. Therefore, this shows that there is still truth in this world, and as for what truth is, although people have not discovered or unified it, it does not mean that it will not be discovered and uniformly identified.

Because truth is conditional, to grasp this viewpoint, we must look at the problem dialectically.

Any absolute truth is a correct reflection of objective things and their laws, and has content that does not depend on people, which is unconditional and absolute, and people's understanding is also unconditional and absolute according to their ability to correctly understand the objective world of infinite development, and relative truth refers to people's correct understanding of objective things and their laws under certain conditions, that is, truth is conditionally matched.

Judging from the breadth and depth of understanding, any truth is a reflection of a certain scope and to a certain extent, and the truth needs to be expanded and deepened. There is a part of any relative truth that contains absolute truth; The synthesis of countless absolute truths constitutes absolute truth.

Truth is a never-ending process of development from relative to absolute, and any understanding of truth is a link in the transformation from relative truth to absolute truth.