Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

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Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Ancient history Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

Author: Christopher P. Long

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Language: English

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Published on: 22nd November 2010

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9780511851827


Overview

This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects. Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that articulates the meaning of truth as a co-operative activity between human beings and the natural world that is rooted in our endeavours to do justice to the nature of things.

Approach

By following a path of Aristotle's thinking that leads from our rudimentary encounters with things in perceiving through human communication to thinking, this book traces an itinerary that uncovers the nature of truth as ecological justice, and it finds the nature of justice in our attempts to articulate the truth of things.

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