What kind of philosophy is this?

Question

"the truth is a matter of personal opinion"

(this is for summer school)

Answer 1

It's a lot of somethings like that because many philosophies have this viewpoint in which agreement is not required. It has even entered business training workshops. See http://concurrentconcepts.com

Answer 2

IF 6.5 BILLION PEOPLE ALL HAVE THERE OWN OPINION AND THE TRUTH IS A MATTER OF PERSONAL OPINION THEN ALL OPINION IS TRUTH? THEY SAY THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE. IF THAT IS AN OPINION THEN IT IS ALSO THE TRUTH. IF YOU AGREE WITH THIS THEN THATS AN OPINION RIGHT? IF ON THE OTHER HAND YOU DISAGREE, THAT ALSO HAS TO BE THE TRUTH. EXAMPLE... SOME SAY THAT BLACK IS NOT A COLOR, BUT I SAY THAT IT IS A COLOR. IF THE TRUTH IS A MATTER OF OPINION BOTH ARE TRUTH. THIS IS A GAME FOR BIG BOYS AND GIRLS. IS THIS TRUTH?

Answer 3

It is a lovely way for the politically correct and the high priests of the new age to say that you cannot call them wrong and they won't say you are wrong because it would cause distress to the simple minded fools who walk on eggshells for fear of offending any one, group, or cult.

Long sentence eh?

What the h**l, the truth is not a matter of personal opinion. To say that "the truth is a matter of personal opinion" is to allow the KKK into the legal system of Africa to clean the continent, and no one would have the right to criticize their truth!!!

For crying out loud; what idiot came up with that piece of politically correct hunk of c**p??(that last sentence was a question darlin, not a statement of your state of mind)

Answer 4

The truth is an absolute concept

it never changes

if it does then it never was the truth

Answer 5

A very true one.

Answer 6

Some other answerers made it sound like what this is saying is, "Everyone is correct."  Which makes no sense, of course.  But I think it is only a tautology: a mere acknowledgment of our differing opinions.  Sometimes the "truth" is absolute or discrete, like in math.  Other times there really is no one right answer, and that is what the philosophy is saying.

Answer 7

This is the philosophy that got you into summer school.

Answer 8

Self contradicting, and thus probably wrong.

Answer 9

It is indeed relativism, and it's a generalisation of the insight that "I" do not know the truth, do not know whether such a thing as "the truth" does actually exist, and doubt whether I *can* know these things. The generalisation lies herein, that "I" then suppose that what goes for me goes for *all* living beings. But how do "I" know what you know? I don't even know if you exist outside of my imagination!

Of course the statement "The truth is a matter of personal opinion" is itself a truth statement, and would therefore seem to be a form of the Liar's Paradox ("This statement is false"). It is not, however, as the view that is expressed in the former statement is the view of one who does not necessarily believe in logic... For "I" know that I do not know whether logic is true, that is, whether it accurately reflects reality.

When the rules of logic are thus broken, however, there is no more basis for meaningful communication: the person who opines that the truth is a matter of personal opinion is thus withdrawn into his own radically personal privacy. In this sense the answer to your question is "Nihilism".

Answer 10

It's a kind of "relativism". You can look at the term and derive more information for your self. I'm too tired to type about it right now.

Answer 11

A liberal one.

Because it does make sense, the truth is often distorted as it is told to fit our own standards.

Answer 12

It's called "New Age Pap"

Answer 13

...i call it..."...SLAAP MEE. =]..." PHILOSOPHY 101...

Answer 14

Relativism. Maybe a bastardization of the Pragmatic theory of Truth.  I think it's c**p.  Truth is justified true belief.