ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two final triads, one concerning truth, the other relating to paradox. In Karl Jaspers philosophers shall find a theory of multiplicity of truths, and in Heidegger a theory attempting to identify truth and Being. To understand truth, according to Kierkegaard, is to appropriate it for oneself, to produce it, and at the same time to be infinitely interested in it. Kierkegaard’s thought is dominated by the idea of an infinite concern about oneself. For Hegel, truth is to be gained by following the transformations of the Idea—transformations which result from the mechanism or dynamism of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. Concerning the idea of truth, then, philosophers can see a kind of dialectic proceeding from truth-subjectivity, as elaborated by Kierkegaard, to truth-Being, as elaborated by Heidegger, and passing through truth-multiplicity as propounded by Jaspers.
