Truth is a three side blade

Loyalty, Plato originally said that only a man who is just can be loyal, and that loyalty is a condition of genuine philosophy. The philosopher Josiah Royce said it was the supreme moral good, and that one's devotion to an object mattered more than the merits of the object itself. Loyalty is something we all have, but the question remains to what.



taught: “Real honesty is being honest about what your possibilities are, what your potentials are. That's where true honesty lies. It stretches us. It’s not simply admitting where we are - that’s a beginning step, it’s not the end step. So be honest about where you are but also be honest about what your possibilities are. That keeps the challenge of the path always before us.



Socrates had much to say about truth, honesty and morality, and explained that if people really understood that their behaviour was wrong — then they simply wouldn't choose it. Furthermore, the most dishonest someone is, the less likely they are to understand honesty and characterise their behaviour as wrong. Unfortunately, honesty and morality have been marginalised to specific lists of behaviours that change over time(like fashion). The understanding that honesty requires an unbiased approach to the truth and to evidence gathering at all times collides with ideologies of all types. This would explain why honesty, although talked about a lot-- has failed to become a cultural norm. Ideologies and idealism inherently exaggerate and suppress evidence in order to support their perspectives. They essentially tell us that their way is the only right way to view the world. This erodes the practice and understanding of honesty and creates ongoing conflicts in all human relationships.




The precise view of what constitutes courage not only varies among cultures but among individuals. For instance, some define courage as lacking fear in a situation that would normally generate it. Others, in contrast, hold that courage requires one to have fear and then overcome it.

All this really teaches us it’s that everything is a matter of perspective and no two people's perspective is the same.