Truth may be defined as the absolute object, which would be known as the perfectly integrated One, if such knowledge were possible. In actual fact, however, such knowledge is impossible. As should have become evident from our discussion of different philosophical alternatives for coping with the crisis of truth, truth presents itself to man in the form of various aspects, which may be described as fragments of the real. Each philosophical alternative which we investigated, the functionalists, the existential and the dialectical one, revealed itself as a cycle of the human self. Each alternative sought to overcome man's self-estrangement and the alienation of man from the world or from being and, in so doing, tried to restore the authentic character of human existence by the methodological constitution of the world or of being from a definite starting-point and from a specific underlying assumption or premise. It became obvious, however, from our discussions that none of the proposed philosophical alternatives for coping with the crisis of truth succeeded in dealing with it in such a way as to overcome it. On the contrary, the insistence of each alternative on its holding alone the key to the resolution of the crisis and so being in possession of the truth has only sharpened the crisis to such an extent that another catastrophe seems imminent.