"Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of time."- Albert Einstein First of all, we have to understand what exactly the term 'axiom' or saying is. Axioms are "self evident truths" or "universally accepted principles or rules." The first definition can be applied more closely to ethical axioms while the latter more closely to the scientific ones. In this sense, an …
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…journal, the two types of axioms are reached and tested partly in similar ways, but also in differing ways. However they may be, no "truth" of our time can be claimed to last. Just as many other products of human effort: buildings, statues, and machinery have rumbled down to the ground, the products of thought will also be twisted, distorted and falsified by time - which in itself is not absolute, as Einstein himself claims.