Sobre Verdad y Posverdad en sentido social (original) (raw)
The term post-truth has come to prominence recently due to its frequent use in the media. Its emergence comes from the journalistic defence of the truth through denouncing fake news, unfounded rumours, and lies propagated by some media sources. The following article draws on the work of Lee McIntyre in order to propose a definition of post-truth, and frame it between the extremes of truth and falsehood. This definition reveals social conflicts in the post-truth discourse, which constructs a reality mediate by certain opinions, prejudices and beliefs that are not shared by society as a whole, while at the same time disregarding relevant facts – a process defined by McIntyre as ‘ideological supremacy’. In this context, it is also argued here the refutation of the idea of truth drew from the philosophy of Nietzsche, whose first conception of that term is closed to the one used by McIntyre as a frame reference for his post-truth definition, hence there is a link between both philosophical developments. Faced with the media’s problem of the loss of truth as tool to distinguish between real news and fake news, it will be argued that Nietzschean philosophy also underlines the importance of social agreement inherent to the idea of truth. This new and secondary aspect revaluates the idea of truth against falsehood. While fake news creates a reality only acceptable for some, news based on the idea of ‘social truth’ create a reality acceptable to us all.
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