Truth and Historicity

ISBN-13: 9780198239277 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 480 str.

Richard Campbell; Richard Campbell

Opis

In this scholarly but non-technical book, 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, through 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 that is compatible with awareness that human existence is finite and contingent--with awareness of our own historicity.

Recenzje

We ... praise Campbell for daring to challenge the anti-historical orientation of Anglo-American philosophy ... has the merit of showing the way for further research on a topic that is crucial to Vico studies.

Spis treści

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.