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A paper which considers the differences and similarities between the ideas of truth as expressed in Swift's Gulliver's Travels and St Augustine's Confessions.
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example of Swifts satire on the methodology of scientific investigation at the time and must be read in the context of the descriptions which Gulliver gives of the Brobdingnagians whom
he has encountered. He is not only criticising the kind of scientific practices which focus solely on small and possibly irrelevant details, and therefore miss the whole picture, but also
the element of prurience which human beings display in their desire to know intimate details which are best dealt with more circumspectly. Truth may indeed be in the details, but
concentrating on the details alone without setting them in a broader context will not give a genuine picture of the entire truth, merely of a series of disconnected fragments.
We see this particularly in his description of physical bodies and
processes, such as his detailed account of the appearance of the Brobdignagian womans breast. Instead of presenting his depiction in terms of beauty, or sexual attractiveness, he focuses on all
the details which he (and the reader) find repulsive when viewed at such close quarters, such as the spots, pimples and freckles which make it appear nauseous. He then goes
on to reflect that the skins of women at home appear beautiful because we cannot see these small defects under normal circumstances, but only by examining them through a magnifying-glass.
In other words, the truth that women are beautiful can only be ascertained by looking at them in their correct proportion, and by seeing the whole person as opposed to
individual details in isolation. Certainly the
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