Truth and Historicity

Inbunden, Engelska, 1992

AvRichard Campbell,Australian National University) Campbell, Richard (Dean of Arts and Professor in Philosophy, Dean of Arts and Professor in Philosophy

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Richard Campbell elucidates the concept of truth by tracing its history: from the ancient Greek idea that truth is timeless, unchanging, and free from all relativism, up to the seventeenth-century crisis which led to the collapse of that idea, and then on through the emergence of historical consciousness to the existentialist, sociological, and linguistic approaches of our own time. He gives a scholarly but vivid and economical exposition of the views of a remarkably wide range of thinkers, always showing how their ideas engage with our contemporary concerns. He argues that current problems with truth arise from the way differing past conceptions continue to resound in our contemporary use of the word, and suggests that we must formulate a new conception of truth, compatible with awareness that through our actions we constitute who we are - with awareness of our own historicity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1992-10-08
Mått165 x 242 x 32 mm
Vikt940 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor474
FörlagClarendon Press
ISBN9780198239277

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1: Introduction; 2: Doing Philosophy Historically; 3: Truth as Divine Norm; 4: Timeless Truth; 5: Truth and the Divine Intellect; 6: Doing the Truth; 7: Truth and Judgements; 8: The Forms Fracture; 9: Truth as the Positive Reality of Ideas; 10: Truth and the New Way of Ideas; 11: Truth in a Contingent World; 12: The Emergence of Historicity; 13: The True as a Historical Result; 14: Individual Existence and the Appropriation of Truth; 15: Truth as a Social Construct; 16: Truth and the Analysis of Logical Form; 17: The Historicity of Truth; 18: Truth in Action; Select Bibliography; Index.

`a grand tour, and a grand tour de force. ... The sheer extent of Campbell's reading and learning has to be admired, and its output needs to be savored. ... By the end of chapter 16, one feels that little of any significance can have been left unsurveyed. ... What is certain is that almost every reader will learn something, and that most will learn a lot, from going through this impressive historical roll-call.'The Journal of Philosophy 1993