Description
| Product ID: | 9781108840323 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Aspects of Truth |
| Subtitle: | A New Religious Metaphysics |
| Authors: | Author: Catherine Pickstock |
| Page Count: | 340 |
| Subjects: | Medieval Western philosophy, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Philosophy of religion, Theology, Philosophy of religion, Theology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating This 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-22 |