File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9807, message 122


Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 18:01:20 +0200
Subject: Re:  truth


Cologne, 14 July 1998

Mike Staples schrieb:
> I guess the story in mythology is
> that the soul housed knowledge that was forgotten when it was forced to
> drink from the river lethei on its way to being re-born into the world.
> This was the river of forgetfullness. And so Plato hooked up the two words
> aletheia and truth (is this right?).

Well, no, Michael. The word "alaetheia" is much older than Plato and occurs 
already in Homer in phrases such as "alaetheia mytheisthai, katalegein or 
apoeipein" - to say or tell the truth, i.e. to reveal all.

Michael
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