What is Truth? Sociology and the Beginning of Anagogical Truth

Sociology, a material approach to “knowing” oneself, is effective as far as one can study the social factors that create the person and who they are. To know or to understand another within their sociological context may be essential in terms of pure knowledge, but that knowledge, in and of itself, is only valuable if that knowledge is used to help develop better relationships with the other or with one who’s sociological background differs from one’s own. It is basically like knowing as much as you can know when you are in the Pit. Again, as with psychology, the relationship between various identifiers suggests the anagogical role relationship plays, not simply in sociology, but in determining the authentic self. Further, it is not only the individual’s combination of identifiers that determines one’s self, but also how that individual relates to others.

Immaculate Heart of Mary Elementary and Middle School in Atlanta, Georgia. The community in which we spent eight or nine years of our formative years not only helped us identify our individual traits; it also introduced us to the people who would help us reveal even more who were are. (photo: Unknown)