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Truth in Philosophy

By Barry Allen

Book information

Year
1995
ISBN
0674910915, 9780674910911, 0674910907, 9780674910904
LCC
BD171 .A3855 1993
Open Library ID
OL1731221M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3283372 bytes)
Pages
344\242
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The goal of philosophers is truth, but for a century or more they have been bothered by Nietzsche's question, "What is the good of truth?" Barry Allen shows what truth has come to mean in the philosophical tradition, what is wrong with many of the ways of conceiving truth, and why philosophers refuse to confront squarely the question of the value of truth--why it is always taken to be an unquestioned concept. What is distinctive about Allen's book is his historical approach. Surveying Western thought from the pre-Socratics to the present day, Allen identifies and criticizes two core assumptions: that truth implies a realist metaphysics, and that truth is a good thing.

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