Truth, body and religion

Authors

• Jarl-Thure Eriksson Åbo Akademi University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67377

Keywords:

Body, Human, Truth, Philosophy, Self

Abstract

This paper is based on the words of welcome to the symposium on Religion and the Body on 16 June 2010.  In a religious context ‘truth’ is like a mantra, a certain imperative to believe in sacred things. The concept of truth and falseness arises, when we as humans compare reality, as we experience it through our senses, with the representation we have in our memory, a comparison of new information with stored information. If we look for the truth, we have to search in the human mind. There we will also find religion.