Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Articulates the nature of truth as a co-operative activity between human beings and the natural world.

Christopher P. Long (Author)

9781107670723, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 September 2013

292 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.43 kg

'This is a deeply insightful, genuinely important book that says things far beyond what its title might suggest. It is at once a learned and original study of Aristotle and his contemporary importance; a brilliant and productive dialogue with naturalism, pragmatism, and existential phenomenology; and a profound and moving meditation on truth, nature, and justice. Aristotle [on] the Nature of Truth is philosophy at its best.' John J. Stuhr, Emory University

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 co-operative activity between human beings and the natural world that is rooted in our endeavours 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.

Prolegomenon
1. The saying of things
2. A history of truth as cor-respondence
3. Saving the things said
4. By way of address: lending voice to things
5. By way of response: the logic of cooperative encounter
6. The truth of nature and the nature of truth in Aristotle
7. On saying the beautiful in light of the good
8. Ecological justice and the ethics of truth.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 [HPCA], Ancient history: to c 500 CE [HBLA]