Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects. Drawing Heideggerian phenomenology into dialogue with American pragmatic naturalism, Christopher P. Long undertakes a rigorous reading of Aristotle that articulates the meaning of truth as a cooperative activity between human beings and the natural world that is rooted in our endeavors to do justice to the nature of things. By following a path of Aristotle's thinking that leads from our rudimentary encounters with things in perceiving through human communication to thinking, this book traces an itinerary that uncovers the nature of truth as ecological justice, and it finds the nature of justice in our attempts to articulate the truth of things.

Author: Christopher P. Long
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/22/2010
Pages: 292
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521191210

About the Author
Long, Christopher P.: - Christopher P. Long is Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the College of the Liberal Arts and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of The Ethics of Ontology: Re-Thinking an Aristotelian Legacy (2004) and has also published numerous articles in journals including the Review of Metaphysics, Ancient Philosophy, the Southern Journal of Philosophy, Polis, Epoché, the Continental Philosophy Review and Telos.