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What is 'truth'?. Is truth a matter of the representation of things which lack truth in themselves?. Or is truth a convenient if redundant way of indicating how one's language refers to things outside oneself?.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101108840329
ISBN-139781108840323
eBay Product ID (ePID)18050087259
Product Key Features
Number of Pages340 Pages
Publication NameAspects of Truth : a New Religious Metaphysics
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
SubjectTheology, General
TypeTextbook
AuthorCatherine Pickstock
Subject AreaReligion, Philosophy
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight21.5 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2020-024114
Reviews'This is emphatically an important book - one of the most innovative and wide-ranging essays in philosophical theology to appear in recent years - from a scholar quite capable of tackling the most sophisticated minds of secular academic philosophy on their own ground, and showing that theology has a serious contribution to make to our thinking about thinking. This seriously original work - which addresses the fundamental question of what we think we are doing/claiming when we say we are speaking truthfully - has the capacity to make a major difference in its field.' Rowan Williams, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge; formerly Archbishop of Canterbury
SynopsisThis bold new work offers a discussion of the topic of truth from simultaneously philosophical and theological perspectives. It argues for the value of a metaphysical approach to truth. This approach defends the notion that truth cannot be separated from what the author calls 'the reality of the thinking soul'., What is 'truth'? The question that Pilate put to Jesus was laced with dramatic irony. But at a time when what is true and what is untrue have acquired a new currency, the question remains of crucial significance. Is truth a matter of the representation of things which lack truth in themselves? Or of mere coherence? Or is truth a convenient if redundant way of indicating how one's language refers to things outside oneself? In her ambitious new book, Catherine Pickstock addresses these profound questions, arguing that epistemological approaches to truth either fail argumentatively or else offer only vacuity. She advances instead a bold metaphysical and realist appraisal which overcomes the Kantian impasse of 'subjective knowing' and ban on reaching beyond supposedly finite limits. Her book contends that in the end truth cannot be separated from the transcendent reality of the thinking soul.