Aspects of Truth: A New Religious Metaphysics
Oct 2020 · Cambridge University Press
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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.
About the author
Catherine Pickstock is the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. Her books include After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy (1997), Thomas d'Aquin et la Quête Eucharistique (2001) and Repetition and Identity (2014). In addition, she was co-editor – with John Milbank and Graham Ward – of the influential collection Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (1998).
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