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Harry Frankfurt On Truth Summary

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Harry Frankfurt's "On Truth" examines the relativity of truth and its degree of importance from Shakespeare's sonnet 138 during chapter VII, in which Frankfurt concludes "love's best habit"—is actually not genuine trust. Mere "seeming trust" is just as good, he suggests, if not sometimes even better." (Harry Frankfurt, On Truth, 34-35). Based on the quote from Frankfurt it can be concluded that the truth and trust do not correlate to living well. Frankfurt agrees with the notion that, in fact, the ignorance of truth can truly be blissful.

The truth can be gathered from egregious lies comprised of consistent denial and failure to admit to the fact, which, subsequently denies the truth. Over time the value of a lie diminishes and the transparency
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