The truth in Hegel and in Marx

Abstract

What is truth? Is there a single truth or many? Is it absolute or relative? Hegel and Marx give some answers through their works. The hegelian and marxist outstanding guide themselves by the dialectical approach according to the singular understanding of each one. Yet, in Hegel as much as in Marx truth has to be seen in the relation between the subject and the object. Both of them make the effort to solve the dichotomy established by other tendencies about the subject and the object. The concept of process is central in their thought and this points at the historical essence of reality. However, it is plain that such a solution can only come out by the passage of the subject to the object (Hegel) and the other way around (Marx). In this way truth in Hegel and Marx has to be understood as an ongoing making process granting the exercise of freedom (Hegel) and an essentially social activity (Marx).