Volume 18, 2002
Truth and Objectivity in Social Ethics
Haim Gordon, Rivca Gordon
Pages 65-81
Heidegger's Understanding Of Truth And The Situation In The Gaza Strip
This paper suggests that one of the reasons for the lack of understanding of what is happening in the Gaza Strip is our current understanding of truth. This understanding of truth, which has prevailed for 2500 years, holds that truth is the accordance of a statement with facts. Together with our recording some of the abuses of human rights in the Gaza Strip, which have all but been ignored, the paper suggests that Martin Heidegger’s understanding of truth as “aletheia,” as unconcealment, may lead to a better knowledge of what is truly occurring in the Gaza Strip.