Abstract

Throughout much of the series, Veronica Mars works for her father Keith Mars's private investigation firm. Most often, Veronica's skillful exercise of her investigative prowess is in the service of discovering and exposing the truth about the situations that she and others are faced with. Like the truth about so many other things in Neptune, the truth about the truth is hardly that simple. The value of the truth is one of the most prominent questions considered by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche observes that one reason why people believe so much in the value of truth is that they imagine, perhaps mistakenly, that knowing the truth is useful. A similar example of the great harm that the truth can cause is depicted in the experiences of Veronica's friend Cindy “Mac” Mackenzie when she has her suspicions confirmed that she's not in fact a Mackenzie.