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Truth in the Making : Creative Knowledge in Theology and Philosophy.
Is knowing a purely passive reception of something concrete outside the mind, or when we know something, are we creating something too?Spanning more than 500 years of philosophical enquiry from the Middle Ages to the present day, Robert Miner clarifies modern philosophical conceptions of knowing as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge Radical Orthodoxy.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- TRUTH IN THE MAKING Creative knowledge in theology and philosophy; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Thomas Aquinas; Scientia Dei and creation; Creation and human production; Making and the "analogy of being"; 2 Nicolaus Cusanus; The dramatic setting of the Idiota de Mente; Construction as manifestation of forms through image-making; Constructions of reason; The activity of mens: vis assimilativa and the construction of concepts; Activa creatio humanitatis: making as imaging of the divine exemplar; 3 Francis Bacon; The Baconian factum; Induction as constructive method.
- Limits on human making: Bacon's formsFor and against Bacon; 4 René Descartes; The Cartesian factum; Representations as artifacts made from simple natures; The constitution of simple natures; Construction in the determination of quaestiones; The division of the Cartesian inheritance; 5 Thomas Hobbes; The making of geometrical definitions; The commonwealth as feat of technical making; Science and power; 6 Giambattista Vico; Making and truth; Abstraction as creation; Making within metaphysics; Making as imaginative mythopoesis; Making as the creation of elements.
- Making as composition from elementsEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.