The spirit that constantly “hopes” for something becomes unstable, continuously changing, momentarily transitioning into a greater or lesser state of “perfection,” which the mind easily interprets as emotional joy or sadness. However, hope carries several dangers. Although it is identified with an anticipated feeling of existential joy, I fear it misleads us.

We are inevitably compelled, for our survival, to fervently defend our “true” experiences and voluntarily submit to the unexamined judgments of “others,” which, through the regulation of our spirit, we call truth, for the sake of reassurance and spiritual comfort.

Spiritual “uncouthness” has plunged, for centuries, the wandering individual into superstitions and corresponding dark and foolish prejudices that keep him captive to the past and to inherited unexamined truths.

The Name of Truth is a philosophical essay that may require some basic knowledge of philosophical terms. Nevertheless, it is approachable and friendly in its expression, while also avoiding oversimplification, in order to help the reader deeply understand significant principles and theories that distinguish philosophical thought.