Original perfect sincerity

St. Gregor from Naziánus speaks with a sigh about the property that the first people had in paradise and lost. Indicates her with a Greek term that is quite difficult to translate: parrhesia. It would be an arrival, an approach, a closeness. The transparent, clear conscience of the innocent man did not know aperture. Adam spoke to God; he understood his human partners and the world. He could say out loud everything that was happening in it. Immediately after sin, however, he hid (cp. Gen. 3.8), ashamed of his childhood simplicity, he needed clothing. Even today, people say they like openness, sincerity, truthfulness, simplicity. It is said: «What the world would be beautiful if everyone said what they thought, they did not hide anything ». However, the question is much more complex than it is at first glance, it seems. If we all revealed our most secret thoughts to each other and revealed ours in movement, we could hardly survive to live together. Human coexistence would be like a city where all the dirt is thrown out the window. Truthfulness, sincerity, virtue is paradise. Unfortunately, we do not live in paradise. Therefore, it is necessary to consider the actual state, with moral and psychological conditions.
Truth and truthfulness.
We do not always know the truth, at least not clearly. And you, then we do not always tell the fact that we know. Scholastic philosophy distinguishes two truths, the so-called logical and ontological. Philosophers call analytical truth clarity and correctness of human knowledge, as our inner image of reality corresponds to the world; as it is, we are not wrong. So, as they say, it is “adapting an idea to things, to reality.” The ontological truth is, on the contrary, adapting reality to an idea, but to a proper idea, that is, God’s. Ontology is so much a thing true as it corresponds to God’s thought, purpose providence. In this sense, Christ reproaches his enemies for hating the truth, for not living according to the fact, that there is no truth in them. They do not keep God’s commandments, they do not live according to God’s will, so they follow the spirit of lies. (cp. Jn 8:41).

Human truthfulness is like a reflection of God’s ontological truth. We start from an idea and adapt something external to it. The fact of a work of art is discussed if the statue, the poem, the music expressed the whole interior of the artist. However, there is a bit of artistic creation in every expression, especially in words. The man is, namely, able to express his thinking and feeling in terms. Here too, however, there are two different problems. The ability to speak externally is limited and very graded according to education and talent. Otherwise, he will “utter” his heart a poet, an otherwise simple person who can use only a few general expressions. The “truthfulness” of the art of the work is the fruit of talent and tenacious effort. Judging their art criticism. However, we are interested in moral problem words. The word expression does not overlap with inner conviction and feeling not only lacking ability but also because we are not sincere and lying.