In light of the task, is the question of truth only a “problem of logic,” or is the question of truth the most questionable one of our past history and the most worthy of questioning of our future history? For everyone who has eyes to see, and especially for everyone who has torn himself from the indolence of an uncreative adherence to the past–e.g., Christianity–and from the presumption to possess the remedy, for everyone who does not want to go back but to go forward, not toward “progress” but into the concealed future, for such ones the task is decided. It requires reflection as the first and the most constant and the ultimate. With the question of truth–raised as it were in an “academic” lecture–we shall attempt to take some steps in such reflection.
Now, since the most preliminary questioning about truth has been confused long ago, thrown off the track and deprived of direction, we must reflect first of all on what is foundational with regard to the question of truth.