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Truth matters : knowledge, politics, ethics, religion /
Why should we seek and tell the truth? Does anyone know what truth is? Many are skeptical about the relevance of truth. Truth Matters endeavours to show why truth is important in a world where the very idea of truth is contested. Putting philosophers in conversation with educators, literary scholars...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Introduction; PART ONE: TRUTH AND KNOWLEDGE; 1. How Not to Be an Anti-realist: Habermas, Truth, and Justification; 2. Radical Constructivism, Education, and Truth as Life-Giving Disclosure; 3. The Jelly and the Shot: Laying down the Law for Pragmatism in Quantum Physics; 4. Cognitive Diversity, Conceptual Schemes, and Truth; PART TWO: TRUTH AND POLITICS; 5 Exposure and Disclosure: The Risk of Hermeneutical Truth in Democratic Politics; 6. Truthfulness, Discourse, and the Problem of Pluralism.
- 7. A Comparative Ethics Approach to the Concept of Bearing Witness: A Practice in Christian Theology and Journalism; 8. Narrative Truth in Canadian Historical Fiction: In between Veracity and Imagination; PART THREE: TRUTH AND ETHICS; 9. Truth, Truthfulness, and the I-Self Relationship; 10. Does Truth Matter to Ethics? Kierkegaard, Ethics, and the Subjectivity of Truth; 11. Theories of Concepts and Moral Truth; 12. Educating for Truthfulness; PART FOUR: TRUTH AND RELIGION; 13. Truth Unveiled: Balthasar and the Contemplation of Christian Truth.
- 14. Truth as "Being Trued": Intersections between Ontological Truth in Aquinas and the Contemporary Anthropology of Religion;15. Bedevilling Truth: "What Have I to Do with Thee?"; 16. A Concept of Artistic Truth Prompted by Biblical Wisdom Literature; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.